The Emulator Manager enables you to define certain hardware aspects of your own emulated device, such as screen resolution and RAM size, and to create multiple images, which is useful for testing multiple environments. With Emulator Manager, you can also control and customize virtual machines.
The Emulator Manager architecture consists of all the supported guest CPU architectures and the current selection. If the selection is changed, the contents in the VM list are changed according to the selection. Currently only x86 architecture can be selected. The VM list consists of all the VM versions. "tizen<VERSION>" refers to the image version. The list under the "Custom" group is not dependent on the version.
When you create a new VM by clicking Create New VM or Add New in the list, the VM is added under the current group. You can modify and delete the VMs you have added, but you cannot modify or delete the default image.
Figure: Emulator Manager
To start the Emulator Manager, do one of the following:
To start the Emulator Manager, type the following command in the Emulator installation directory at the command line, for example, in Linux, home/{user-name}/tizen_sdk/tools/emulator:
$./bin/emulator-manager
>bin\emulator-manager.exe
To change the workspace, you need to start the Emulator Manager with an argument. The default workspace is: ${TIZEN_DATADIRECTORY}/tizen-sdk-data/emulator-vms.
The ${TIZEN_DATADIRECTORY} is different for different platforms:
The Emulator Manager provides a save option to set the workspace permanently. If you start the Emulator Manager with "workspace and save true" option, you do not need to give the workspace option the next time you launch the Emulator Manager:
$ ./bin/emulator-manager --workspace ${PATH}
OR
$ ./bin/emulator-manager -w ${PATH}
> bin\emulator-manager.exe --workspace ${PATH},save=${yes | no}
OR
> bin\emulator-manager.exe -w ${PATH},save=${yes | no}
Figure: Emulator Manager command line
To stop the Emulator, right-click the Emulator and select Close.