title: Android emulator won't start in Linux
body: <p>I'm trying to start emulator-arm but it seems to get stuck and never shows the emulator gui. This is my command</p>
  
  <pre><code>emulator-arm -avd Android403 -verbose
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And this is the printout:</p>
  
  <pre><code>emulator: found SDK root at /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86
  emulator: Android virtual device file at: /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.ini
  emulator: virtual device content at /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd
  emulator: virtual device config file: /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/config.ini
  emulator: using core hw config path: /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/hardware-qemu.ini
  emulator: Found AVD target API level: 15
  emulator: found skin 'WVGA800' in directory: /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/platforms/android-15/skins
  emulator: autoconfig: -skin WVGA800
  emulator: autoconfig: -skindir /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/platforms/android-15/skins
  emulator: keyset loaded from: /home/xxxx/.android/default.keyset
  emulator: trying to load skin file '/home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/platforms/android-15/skins/WVGA800/layout'
  emulator: skin network speed: 'full'
  emulator: skin network delay: 'none'
  emulator: autoconfig: -kernel /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/system-images/android-15/armeabi-v7a//kernel-qemu
  emulator: autoconfig: -ramdisk /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/system-images/android-15/armeabi-v7a//ramdisk.img
  emulator: Using initial system image: /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/system-images/android-15/armeabi-v7a//system.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -data /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/userdata-qemu.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -initdata /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/userdata.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -cache /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/cache.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -sdcard /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/sdcard.img
  emulator: Physical RAM size: 512MB
  
  Content of hardware configuration file:
    hw.cpu.arch = arm
    hw.cpu.model = cortex-a8
    hw.ramSize = 512
    hw.touchScreen = yes
    hw.mainKeys = yes
    hw.trackBall = yes
    hw.keyboard = yes
    hw.keyboard.lid = no
    hw.keyboard.charmap = qwerty2
    hw.dPad = yes
    hw.gsmModem = yes
    hw.camera = no
    hw.camera.maxHorizontalPixels = 640
    hw.camera.maxVerticalPixels = 480
    hw.gps = yes
    hw.battery = yes
    hw.accelerometer = yes
    hw.audioInput = yes
    hw.audioOutput = yes
    hw.sdCard = yes
    hw.sdCard.path = /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/sdcard.img
    disk.cachePartition = yes
    disk.cachePartition.path = /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/cache.img
    disk.cachePartition.size = 66m
    hw.lcd.width = 480
    hw.lcd.height = 800
    hw.lcd.depth = 16
    hw.lcd.density = 240
    hw.lcd.backlight = yes
    hw.gpu.enabled = no
    hw.fakeCamera = back
    hw.webcam.count = 6
    hw.webcam.0.name = webcam0
    hw.webcam.1.name = webcam1
    hw.webcam.2.name = webcam2
    hw.webcam.3.name = webcam3
    hw.webcam.4.name = webcam4
    hw.webcam.5.name = webcam5
    hw.webcam.0.direction = front
    hw.webcam.1.direction = back
    hw.webcam.2.direction = front
    hw.webcam.3.direction = front
    hw.webcam.4.direction = front
    hw.webcam.5.direction = front
    vm.heapSize = 48
    hw.sensors.proximity = yes
    hw.sensors.magnetic_field = yes
    hw.sensors.orientation = yes
    hw.sensors.temperature = yes
    kernel.path = /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/system-images/android-15/armeabi-v7a//kernel-qemu
    kernel.parameters =  android.checkjni=1
    disk.ramdisk.path = /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/system-images/android-15/armeabi-v7a//ramdisk.img
    disk.systemPartition.initPath = /home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/system-images/android-15/armeabi-v7a//system.img
    disk.systemPartition.size = 166m
    disk.dataPartition.path = /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/userdata-qemu.img
    disk.dataPartition.size = 66m
    disk.snapStorage.path = 
    avd.name = Android403
  .
  QEMU options list:
  emulator: argv[00] = "development/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/emulator-arm"
  emulator: argv[01] = "-android-hw"
  emulator: argv[02] = "/home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/hardware-qemu.ini"
  Concatenated QEMU options:
   development/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/emulator-arm -android-hw /home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/hardware-qemu.ini
  emulator: registered 'boot-properties' qemud service
  emulator: nand_add_dev: system,size=0xa600000,initfile=/home/xxxx/development/android-sdk-linux_x86/system-images/android-15/armeabi-v7a//system.img
  emulator: mapping 'system' NAND image to /tmp/android-xxxx/emulator-wDcx8t
  emulator: rounding devsize up to a full eraseunit, now a608000
  
  emulator: nand_add_dev: userdata,size=0x4200000,file=/home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/userdata-qemu.img
  emulator: registered 'boot-properties' qemud service
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'dalvik.vm.heapsize' = '48m'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.lcd_density' = '240'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.hw.mainkeys' = '1'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.fake_camera' = 'back'
  emulator: nand_add_dev: cache,size=0x4200000,file=/home/xxxx/.android/avd/Android403.avd/cache.img
  emulator: Kernel parameters: qemu.gles=0 qemu=1 console=ttyS0 android.qemud=ttyS1 android.checkjni=1 ndns=2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And it never gets any longer. It also sends a DNS-request of my computers hostname (and gets an answer!). When I cancel the emulator with ctrl-c the gui shows up for a fraction of a second before the process is killed.</p>
  
  <p>I'm running 64-bit Linux but have 32-bit java installed. The same thing happens if I start the emulator from within Eclipse (of course).</p>
  
  <p>Have anyone seen this? I've googling on this but seems people only have other emulator startup problems.</p>
  
  <p>I think it something to do with my 64-bit system.</p>