Start More than one Android Emulator at a time

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After I updated my ADT/Tools to 20, I am not able to start Two Emulators at a time.

It worked Once. But i don't remember what i did that time.

I tried restart my system several times.

I don't know how to locate whats the problem in emulator.

the emulator is shown in TaskManager Process but not on screen.

EDITED:

Reported as bug http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34221&sort=-id&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

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you are not able to "start" multiple emulators from your android virtual device manager?? - Sunny Kumar Aditya
@Sunny yes from Android Virtual Device Manager and also from Command Line. The Emualtor are started but not shown on screen. - Vivek Khandelwal
Yes, I have to agree with your reported problem, I can't start more than one either - and it DID used to work. It's actually worse than you reported too. If you start emulator type 1, then try to start type 2 (nothing happens), kill emulator type 1 and try to start emulator type 3, then the 'queued up' type 2 emulator starts. - NickT
It's already been reported as a bug it seems:code.google.com/p/android/issues/… - NickT

2 Answers

1
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Looks like this bug is fixed in the latest version of SDK Tools, Revision 20.0.1.

From the revision history:

Fixed problems with running more than one emulator and running multiple emulators with GPU acceleration.

0
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You should use different AVD Manager for running more than one emulator.