"/dev/kvm not found "error on windows in android studio

android-studio haxm
Rahul Mishra picture Rahul Mishra · Apr 10, 2016 · Viewed 56.6k times · Source

I have enabled the Virtualization in BIOS in windows and I have Intel HAXM installed as well but I still get the message when I run the application on the emulator. How to resolve this. I am stuck at the same error for last two days.

Answer

Istiak Morsalin picture Istiak Morsalin · Apr 27, 2016

Remove intel haxm installer 6 from control panel>Add or remomve Program. And download manually from here. https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager

Then install it manually. And launch android studio again. This worked for me. Hope it helps.

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