Nandroid backup of Emulator instance? Is it possible to use Nandroid to backup an AVD instance?
The system images system.img are located in the android SDK install directory under system-images/android-&lt;platform-version&gt;/&lt;platform-type&gt;. 

Once you create the AVD, in the %USERPROFILE%/.android/avd/&lt;AVD_NAME&gt;.avd you will find the img files for /sdcard/ and /data/, but /system and such are loaded from the SDK path mentioned above.

In order to create an AVD you must install the system images from the SDK manager.