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For questions about emulation and emulators, where a computer program is emulating (imitating) the behavior of another program or hardware device.

An emulator is a system which is designed to perform the duties of a different system. An emulator is distinct from a simulator (an emulator is intended to replicate the external behaviour of a system, whereas a simulator replicates the internal behaviour). See:

Emulators are commonly used to allow programs written for one system to be run on a different system. This is desirable when developing for a wide variety of target platforms, or when maintaining old programs designed for deprecated hardware.

One type of emulator that emulates a computer is called a . These are used by companies so they can tests their apps on the emulator rather than on an actual hardware.

Examples of some emulators:

Questions in this tag should relate in some way to the implementation or usage of a computer system which is an emulator.

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Display Keyboard for EditText in Emulator (GenyMotion) Android 4.3

Does anybody know how to display the keyboard in the emulator when the EditText field has focus. I have tried so many solutions but none of them work. I am working in android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The Emulator I am using is GenyMotion. I would also like…
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Emulate Zebra printer

Possible Duplicate: Print preview ZPL II commands using .NET WinForm before sending it to Zebra printer I am working on a Java app that prints tickets to a Zebra printer. The problem is that I am working remotely and don't have access to the…
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Why is the Android emulator slow?

Possible Duplicate: slow android emulator Does anybody know why the emulator is that slow? Other emulators like for iPhone, Corona SDK load fast... Wondering why Google doesn't work on this, it's an enervating drawback developing... Are maybe…
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Chrome Responsive Emulator - How to default zoom to 100%

One of the most annoying things I encounter on a daily basis is constantly having to reset the zoom of the chrome device emulator. For whatever reason, each time I change the device selection, the zoom changes from 100% to the "Fit to Window" size,…
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Emulator Not Running on Android Studio

I am trying to run an emulator over Android Studio, but it's not starting. I have Android studio (version 23 marshmallow), configured with minSdkVersion 21 targetSdkVersion 23 When I run my app in emulation (nexus 5x api 23 android 6.0), I get the…
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babun: copy/paste from windows clipboard into vim?

right-clicking while at the prompt dumps the contents of the clipboard into the shell, but in vim it just switches to VISUAL mode and does nothing. How do I workaround this? https://github.com/babun/babun/issues/97
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How to add a new device in QEMU source code?

What could be the step wise approach to emulate/add a new device in qemu using QOM approach? What and where could be the changes with respect to DeviceState/BusState and other properties?
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Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running? - At Android Studio

I installed android studio and tried to run easy projects. But I caught strange error message: Waiting for device. /usr/local/idea/android-studio/sdk/tools/emulator -avd Nexus-4-18-xhdpi -netspeed full -netdelay none emulator: emulator window was…
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Cordova android emulator stopped working

I'm building an app for Android using Cordova. The android emulator was working fine but I wasn't using it because I installed the Ripple emulator. I continued on building my app, but somewhere the emulator got corrupted. When I execute the…
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6502 CPU Emulation

It's the weekend, so I relax from spending all week programming by writing a hobby project. I wrote the framework of a MOS 6502 CPU emulator yesterday, the registers, stack, memory and all the opcodes are implemented. (Link to source below) I can…
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Android 4.0 emulator won't start

When trying to create and start an Android 4.0 emulator I get the Android emulator skin but the OS doesn't seem to start. I've installed the ARM EABI v7 package from Android SDK manager at tried to create an emulator, but got an error message about…
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How to emulate LPAD/RPAD with SQLite

I'm curious about how to emulate RPAD and LPAD functions for SQLite, formally, in the most general way. The goal is to be able to do LPAD(column, character, repeat) RPAD(column, character, repeat) For non-constant table columns column, character,…
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Cannot create platform OpenGL context

On my ubuntu 18.04, when I start android emulator: $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator -avd pixel Warning: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled ((null):0, (null)) emulator: INFO: QtLogger.cpp:66:…
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How do you connect your terminal with the Android emulator

I have tried the navigate to the android tool folder and entering the "adb shell" command but it doesn't seem to work. My terminal seems only to recognize the adb part of the command and gives me an error message. What am I doing wrong???
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Android studio emulator fails to start with memory limit related error message

I'm trying to run my first android studio project but I get this error message and the emulator doesn't start : Created filesystem with 11/4224 inodes and 1302/16896 blocks Failed to create Context 0x3005 emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize…
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