Android-Studio : Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine

Question

I have just installed Android - studio today. First I have to install jdk7 for this IDE.

After that only I was able to launch IDE.

Now When I am trying to create new project, just getting error as shown in below image.

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Can anybody please help me.

What is missing from my side?

are you create or import a project? – twocity May 16 '13 at 14:12 — twocity, May 16 '13 at 14:12
Have tested with creating new project.... – Nirav Shah May 16 '13 at 14:15 — Nirav Shah, May 16 '13 at 14:15

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '13 at 05:31

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In my case, I changed below file to modify vm heap option.

C:\Program Files\Android\android-studio\bin\studio.exe.vmoptions

I increased -Xms128m to -Xms512m and restarted Android Studio.

After that, I could go to next step.

answered May 20 '13 at 05:31

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Dalmas · Answer 2 · 2013-07-24T15:37:20.047

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I found a solution to this problem on an old vs-android issue.

You should create a new environment variable named _JAVA_OPTIONS, set it to
-Xms256m -Xmx1024m and it should work.

edited Jul 24 '13 at 15:37

answered May 19 '13 at 11:11

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thank you! Linked to your answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16782564/382515 – Ivan Ferrer Villa May 28 '13 at 01:33
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Thanks! This worked for me setting both options to -Xms512m and -Xmx512m – Iammesol May 21 '14 at 17:49

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '13 at 08:21

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I guess you have the same problem as me. I use Windows 7 32bit and therefore my Java SDK and runtime are also 32 bit. Gradle runs in its own Java VM and Android Studio starts this VM with a heap size parameter (-Xmx1024m) of 1 GB. This is too much for my 32-bit environment and creating the JVM fails.

If I manually start Gradle with -Xmx512m as JVM option Gradle starts without problems, but so far I have not found out how to tell Android Studio to start the JVM differently while it creates a new Android project.

So currently I'm also still stuck.

thomas

answered May 17 '13 at 08:21

Thomas

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Thanks Thomas, I will also try to find a solution on the same way, if it is the only issue. – Nirav Shah May 17 '13 at 12:37
Nice point about the 32 bit thing. I've configured `C:\Program Files\Android\android-studio\bin\studio.exe.vmoptions` with the values you suggested, killed a few apps, and it worked, :-) – German Latorre Jun 12 '14 at 11:00

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 03 '15 at 06:24

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1.In the Studio, navigate to File-> Settings->Compiler

   In the VM Options text box, paste this line
   -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

Delete the existing AVD.
Then File->Invalidate Caches/Restart .
After restarting the studio, create a new AVD. Should work fine !

answered Mar 03 '15 at 06:24

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what is this file invalidate stands for?, i am having the same problem for android studio on 32 bit machine? – Sandeep Londhe Jul 19 '15 at 15:25
Studio sometimes can not take up the recent modified files, and at times try to fetch the configurations from the cache, so when you do invalidate think it like, it is clearing all the cache and fetching the current configurations you mentioned. Could you please try the above steps, worked for me and few others.See if this works for you – akash89 Jul 20 '15 at 02:41

score 4 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 28 '15 at 17:11

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I found the solution in vs-android Issue 15: -dex: could not create the Java virtual machine

Follow this steps:

Run regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Select Environment
Add a new String Value and enter _JAVA_OPTIONS for Value name
Enter -Xms256m -Xmx512m for Value data
Reboot computer

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answered Aug 02 '13 at 18:08

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 07:22

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In my case, I also change below file.

C:\Program Files\Android\android-studio\bin\studio.exe.vmoptions

but I decreased -XX:MaxPermSize=350m to -XX:MaxPermSize=300m and restarted Android Studio.

answered Aug 25 '13 at 07:22

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered May 18 '13 at 21:01

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I was having the same problem. I downloaded and installed JDK 6u43 and set my JAVA_HOME and JDK_HOME environment variables to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_43. This let me create a project.

Doesn't help if you want to use jdk7, though.

answered May 18 '13 at 21:01

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score 1 · Answer 8 · edited Feb 08 '17 at 07:17

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I was facing this same issue, and I solved it by the following steps:-

Close android studio.
Go to your project folder.
Delete .gradle folder and gradle.properties file.
Now start android studio project and wait while gradle build. It will not show the error.

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answered Feb 08 '17 at 06:05

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