Android emulator and virtualbox cannot run at same

Question

Whenever I have Virtualbox running, I cannot start an Android emulator image (and vice versa). The error message in the AVD manager is

ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) failed: Device or resource busy
ko:failed to initialize KVM

How can I make both run at the same time?

That is a Ubuntu 64 bit, all involved software is of the latest released version.

Answer 1

There is finally a fix for this.

Follow these steps for macOS:

1. In Android Studio Go to Tools -> Android -> SDK Manager

2. Confirm you have the latest version of Intel Emulator Accelerator HAXM installed (v6.1.1) .

3. Go to the extras directory of the Android SDK location displayed in the preferences. On MacOS you can do this:

   open ~/Library/Android/sdk/extras

4. Install the HAXM packing by opening IntelHAXM_6.1.1.dmg, then opening IntelHAXM_6.1.1.mpkg in the mounted folder, and following the installer instructions.

Follow these steps for Windows:

1. In Android Studio Go to Tools -> Android -> SDK Manager

2. Confirm you have the latest version of Intel Emulator Accelerator HAXM installed (v6.1.1) .

3. Go to the extras directory of the Android SDK location displayed in the preferences. Something like:

   C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\extras

4. In that directory is some kind of file like intelhaxm-android.exe. Run it.

Answer 2

This might be out of topic, due to the fact that OP requested VirtualBox + KVM in the same time, but still, it might be the workaround: I was looking for a way to launch Windows 7 and AVD on Ubuntu 18.10 x64. Turning off KVM is not an option due to the fact that performance of AVD is critical to me. I have installed Windows 7 via Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager package) and now both the AVD and Windows 7 are hardware accelerated.

Answer 3

You also can change CPT/ABI setting from x86 to arm in emulator settings.

Answer 4

Though it's a workaround either, but definitely better than disabling KVM as everyone suggesting.

Just run the virtualbox guest in KVM instead. For example (kvm here is just a script running a qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm):

kvm Win7.vdi -boot c -m 2G -vga qxl

Answer 5

I resolved it by installing HAXM 6.1.2.

Please refer to the following link for details :- https://forums.docker.com/t/cant-using-docker-for-mac-with-android-emulator-haxm/8939/11

Answer 6

Another solution is to use libvirt backed vagrant using vagrant-libvirt plugin.