Android: Your CPU does not support VT-x

Hardik Chauhan picture Hardik Chauhan · Sep 22, 2016 · Viewed 24k times · Source

Your CPU does not support VT-x. Intel HAXM is required to run this AVD. Your CPU does not support VT-x.

Unfortunately, your computer does not support hardware accelerated virtualization. Here are some of your options: 1) Use a physical device for testing 2) Develop on a Windows/OSX computer with an Intel processor that supports VT-x and NX 3) Develop on a Linux computer that supports VT-x or SVM 4) Use an Android Virtual Device based on an ARM system image (This is 10x slower than hardware accelerated virtualization)

What do I do to get around this limitation?

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Answer

Maxim picture Maxim · Dec 8, 2017

According to Android Documentation, to run an emulator the development system's CPU should support one of the following virtualization extensions technologies:

  • Intel Virtualization Technology (VT, VT-x, vmx)
  • AMD Virtualization (AMD-V, SVM) -- only supported for Linux

Your CPU is Intel Pentium B940, which according to the manufacturer does not support Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x). That's the reason for this error.

The workaround is to use an alternative Android Emulator, e.g. Genymotion.