Android emulator reports unknown virtual device

Question

Hi, i am having the same problem described in the following post "Android emulator reports unknown virtual device" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3384070/android-emulator-reports-unknown-virtual-device and have followed all of the instructions in an attempt to resolve but still i cannot run my AVD.

I only have one drive on my Windows 7 machine (C:) and the AVD is being created in the correct location -> C:\Users\MyUser\.android

Ive also tried to setup an environment variable "ANDROID_SDK_HOME"

The actual error is:

emulator: ERROR: unknown virtual device name: 'my_AVD' 
emulator: could not find virtual device named 'my_AVD'

Can someone please help me?

Answer 1

For another reason i had to re-format my pc. After a quick rebuild its working fine now. I think the problem happened because in the previous installation of windows, i was playing around with HDD's. Somehow this had caused problems..