android - Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Running multiple emulators with the same AVD is an experimental feature

Question

I removed the emulator and reinstalled it and got the same error.

Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Running multiple emulators with the same AVD is an experimental feature.
Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1.

Answer 1

Removing the .lock files did the trick for me. Find the avd and remove the lock files. In a Mac .android/avd/'NAMEOFAVD.avd directory . The files I removed were hardware-qemu.ini.lock and multiinstance.lock.