title: VS 2017 for Android emulator not working - xamarin
body: <p>Installed VS 2017 (prof &amp; community) RTM for xamarin development. Getting the below error while running the app. I have verified that installed the Intel Acceleration component. Any insights ?</p>
  
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  1&gt;C:\Users\Sowmyan\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\App1\App1\App1.Android\App1.Android.csproj : warning XA0105: The $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.dll (v7.1) is greater than the $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for your project (v6.0). You need to increase the $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for your project.
  1&gt;C:\Users\Sowmyan\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\App1\App1\App1.Android\App1.Android.csproj : warning XA0105: The $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for Xamarin.Forms.Platform.dll (v7.1) is greater than the $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for your project (v6.0). You need to increase the $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for your project.
  1&gt;    Processing: obj\Debug\res\layout\tabbar.xml
  1&gt;    Processing: obj\Debug\res\layout\toolbar.xml
  1&gt;    Processing: obj\Debug\res\values\styles.xml
  1&gt;    Processing: obj\Debug\res\layout\tabbar.xml
  1&gt;    Processing: obj\Debug\res\layout\toolbar.xml
  1&gt;    Processing: obj\Debug\res\values\styles.xml
  2&gt;Starting deploy VisualStudio_android-23_x86_phone ...
  2&gt;Starting emulator VisualStudio_android-23_x86_phone ...
  2&gt;C:\PROGRA~2\Android\ANDROI~1\tools\emulator.EXE -partition-size 512 -no-boot-anim -avd VisualStudio_android-23_x86_phone -prop monodroid.avdname=VisualStudio_android-23_x86_phone
  **2&gt;emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration!**
  2&gt;Please ensure Intel HAXM is properly installed and usable.
  2&gt;CPU acceleration status: HAXM is not installed on this machine
  2&gt;Emulator VisualStudio_android-23_x86_phone cannot be started.
  ========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
  ========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========</code></pre>
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