xamarin android player failed to initialize device

Question

I have recently installed a xamarin android player for developing android application but after the complete installation when i open a xamarin android player it will throw a following error...

****xamarin android player failed to initialize device vboxmanag****

Can anyone help me or tell me what can I do.

Answer 1

I found some info by Googling around that may help starting a device in the Android Player. I have Vers 0.6.5 of the player.

1. Open VirtualBox directly as suggested by Cook Data. You will get the REAL error message which may related to vt-ix....

2. Make sure that the the bios has enabled the virtual technology aka vt-ix. Just do a reboot and you should find it in he bios setup - maybe under advanced. AMD and INTEL have slightly different names for it.

3. Reduce the system memory for the device you wish to start to 1024 Mb if it is currently 2048 Mb

I also got a warning about video memory which I increased to 10Mb from 8Mb

My setup runs over Hyper-V which has its own foibles so YMMV and I only started on this stuff today...

Answer 2

I am running Windows 10 Pro and use Oracle VBox v.5.0.4. if your case same with me : first, you need to uninstall the current version of Oracle VBox then install the new version that already support Windows 10. i use v. 5.1. You can download it here

then, just try to re-launch the emulator.

Answer 3

For Windows 10 users (After Bios Virtualization enabled) Use VirtualBox 5.1.14 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads