Summary: Does the Android emulator work inside a VM? Or must it be run on a 
bare metal machine?


I am trying to setup some automated tests using Jenkins using the Android 
plugin. The slave is a VM (on top) of VMWare ESXi, running Ubuntu Linux (32 bit 
x86). When the emulator tries to start the VM, it shows an error "Failed to 
Initialize backend EGL display" and nothing happens.


[android] Using Android SDK: /home/hudson/hudson/tools/android-sdk
[android] Creating Android AVD: 
/home/hudson/.android/avd/hudson_en-US_160_1080x1920_android-19_armeabi-v7a.avd


[android] /home/hudson/hudson/tools/android-sdk/tools/android create avd -f -a 
-s 1080x1920 -n hudson_en-US_160_1080x1920_android-19_armeabi-v7a -t android-19 
--abi x86

[android] Setting hardware properties:
        hw.ramSize: 768
        vm.heapSize: 64


$ /home/hudson/hudson/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb start-server


$ /home/hudson/hudson/tools/android-sdk/tools/emulator -snapshot-list 
-no-window -avd hudson_en-US_160_1080x1920_android-19_x86

[android] Starting Android emulator and creating initial snapshot
$ /home/hudson/hudson/tools/android-sdk/tools/emulator -no-boot-anim -ports 
45507,44892 -prop persist.sys.language=en -prop persist.sys.country=US -avd 
hudson_en-US_160_1080x1920_android-19_x86 -no-snapshot-load -no-snapshot-save 
-wipe-data -no-window -noaudio -gpu off

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 39784 *
* daemon started successfully *

Failed to Initialize backend EGL display

...

emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software 
renderer.


I tried with different abi (x86|armeabi-v7a) and options (combinations of 
-noaudio -gpu off). All failing. I also tried to login to the console and 
launch the emulator manually. All I see is a black emulator window. The 
emulator process is actively running ('top' command), but I don't see the home 
screen.


Thanks,

Charles

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