Android Emulator Freezing On Startup

Question

I am trying to run an Android emulator on Ubuntu 11.10 x64 with Eclipse 3.7. I have installed the SDK, the plugin for Eclipse, have set my PATH variables to include the android-

Answer 1

For me the solution was while the emulator stuck on Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched. Launch your app again.and now it will start installing your app.

or you can try starting emulator from AVD manager.

Answer 2

Try starting your emulator on the command line by this command : (cd to your tools folder of your android sdk before that)

emulator -avd avdname

Answer 3

Turns out the problem was with VirtualBox (didn't think to mention this, sorry). Unchecking 3D Acceleration caused the emulator to run correctly.