emulator @<avdname>
or
emulator -avd <avdname>

you don't need the .avd suffix here

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:37 PM, abhi <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do you start an emulator from the command line with that AVD file?
> When I tried $emulator -avd AndroidAVD.avd, I got the error:
> emulator: ERROR: unknown virtual device name: 'AndroidAVD.avd'
> emulator: could not find virtual device named 'AndroidAVD.avd'
>
> On Jan 13, 5:22 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > abhi wrote:
> > > I figured I could use ./emulator from the <SDK-folder>/tools/
> > > directory. However it is asking me for the .avd file to go with it and
> > > I am not able to locate it. When I saw under the ~/.android/avd
> > > directory, there is a *directory* called AndroidAVD.avd, not a file.
> > > So, does anyone know where the *.AVD is located in a linux
> > > environment? I tried to find it using "find" but was not successful.
> >
> > It is located in ~/.android/avd, at least on Ubuntu, and not involving
> > Eclipse.
> >
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