When Visual Studio 2015 was released, I built a new VM and installed everything. VS2015 worked fine but the new shiny Android emulator wasn't so happy.
The first error was around Hyper-V.
Visual Studio Emulator for Android
The emulator is unable to verify that the virtual machine is running:
Something happened while starting a virtual machine: 'VS Emulator 5-inch KitKat (4.4) XXHDPI Phone.bob' failed to start. (Virtual machine ID 889F3EA2-7B0E-4873-9180-C765E4293D4E)
The Virtual Machine Management Service failed to start the virtual machine 'VS Emulator 5-inch KitKat (4.4) XXHDPI Phone.bob' because one of the Hyper-V components is not running (Virtual machine ID 889F3EA2-7B0E-4873-9180-C765E4293D4E).
This a fairly common error and once that is easy to fix.
- Open the .vmx file in notepad and ad the following lines:
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
mce.enable = "TRUE"
vhu.enable = "TRUE" - Run the VM. Go to "Programs and Features" and ensure that Hyper-V is installed
Running the emulator now gives a completely different error. Yay, progress.
Visual Studio Emulator for Android
An OpenGL error has occurred:
Failed to create Context 0x3005
The emulator will now shut down.
There are multiple ways to fix this:
- Turn off "Accelerate 3D Graphics" in the VM settings
- In the VM, edit the c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.10240.0\skus\android\xdesku.xml file and remove the following line from the file: GuestDisplayProvider=”VsEmulator.OpenGLGuestDisplay”
Either way works:
