Unable to run Visual Studio Android Emulator on windows 10 pro

Question

Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 on Windows 10.

Below is the one of the log... 12/30/2015 8:56:55 AM : [Informational] Installable profiles initialized. Devices: 17 Platforms: 2 12/30/2015 8:57:31 AM : [Informational] Waiting to launch device... 12/30/2015 8:57:31 AM : [Informational] Launching Device: 5.5" Lollipop (5.1.1) XXHDPI Phone 12/30/2015 8:57:31 AM : [Informational] Validating emulator arguments... 12/30/2015 8:57:31 AM : [Informational] Determining if emulator is already running... 12/30/2015 8:58:31 AM : [Critical] An error occurred that prevented the operation from completing successfully.

Answer 1

A few things you could try:

1. Uninstall the emulator/android sdk and reinstall.

2. Check that your account is in the Hyper-V Administrators group. Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > User Accounts > Manage User Accounts > Advanced > Advanced User Management. Under Groups.

Hope that helps

Answer 2

I ran into the same, least-helpful message. By chance, do you get different results using either of the following methods?

• Run the Visual Studio Emulator for Android as an administrator.
• Double-click the name of the image (instead of clicking the 'play' button').

It's working for me now and, while I know that second one sounds ridiculous, I did get a different result by double-clicking the name of the image I wanted to run.