I create an Android Emulator in Version Android 4.2.2, and the Android Vitual Device Manager distributes the Memory Options: RAM 1024……
However, when I try to run my Android Emulator from eclipse, it didn't start successfully! The Console showed Errors following:
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Failed to allocate memory: 8
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
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At first, I found a situation in a CSDN blog http://blog.csdn.net/wbw1985/article/details/8500226(wbw1985)
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif;">This following solution worked for me. In the following configuration file:</p><pre class="default prettyprint prettyprinted" name="code" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif; overflow: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px;"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif;"><span class="pln" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">C</span><span class="pun" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">:</span><span class="pln" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">\Users\<user</span><span class="pun" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">></span><span class="pln" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">\.android\avd\<avd</span><span class="pun" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">-</span><span class="pln" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">profile</span><span class="pun" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">-</span><span class="pln" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">name</span><span class="pun" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">>.</span><span class="pln" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">avd\config</span><span class="pun" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">.</span><span class="pln" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">ini</span></code>
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by
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Then, I found another blog online http://www.cnblogs.com/devilcoder/archive/2013/01/28/2879416.html(DevilCoder)
The reason is:
In the Windows7 System 64bit,if you have created an Emulator with a resolution larger than 400×800, then, when you start the Emulator in Eclipse, it will occur such a problem(x64的Win7,发现在Eclipse上启动模拟器的时候存在问题,当设置的模拟器分辨率大于400×800的时候会出现).
A Simple and effective method is to set the RAM smaller than 1024, such as 512 best as I did when create an Emulator(直接在新建模拟器的时候把它的内存RAM设置在1024以下就可以,最好设置成512).
Shown following figure:
It is resolved succesfully!