Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Running multiple emulators with the same AVD is an experimental feature

Question

I removed the emulator and reinstalled it and got the same error.

Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Running multiple emulators with the same AVD is an experimental feature.
Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1.

Answer 1

Removing the .lock files did the trick for me. Find the avd and remove the lock files. In a Mac .android/avd/'NAMEOFAVD.avd directory . The files I removed were hardware-qemu.ini.lock and multiinstance.lock.

Answer 2

It can be solved using this method. It worked for me. Follow the steps:

1. Open Android Studio.
2. Go to AVD Manager.
3. In the Actions column, for the respective avd, click on the down arrow and click on Stop.

This will stop the Emulator and then you can restart it from the command line.

Answer 3

This means that your AVD manager thinks that your emulator is running. It thinks that because it sees lockfiles in your avd directory. If your emulator is not running they you can (should) safely delete the lockfiles here :

$ rm $HOME/.android/avd/<name-of-your-avd>.avd/*.lock

Answer 4

Removing the cache could help

sudo rm /home/${USER}/.android/avd/*/*.cache

Answer 5

The very simple solution which is working all the time is to stop the emulator before launching the new project. If this error comes back you make a duplication of the AVD and delete the old one and run the new one. It works all the time.

Answer 6

just open your task manger, look for adb.exe, end task of all abd.exe extensions and restart your emulator.

Answer 7

Make sure you don't have any physical device connected to your computer, in addition to removing all emulators' .lock