SD card required to download error in android emulator

Question

I am using android studio 2.3. Created an AVD with API level 17 (Jelly bean). After this i am trying to download something in emulator and it gives "An SD card is required to download abc.apk" error.

I tried multiple things already : used mksdcard, tried running emulator from command line using sdcard.img path, provided space in studio-sdcard section. in my config.ini hw.sdCard is set to yes, still facing this issue.

Looking for help to resolve this issue.

Thanks, Kapil

Geodynamics

This seems to be a bug. code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=240155 . In comment #2 there is a workaround that I was not able to make work yet. – Nurseryman

If you are blocked by this issue in a personal project, you might consider using Genymotion in the mean-time (genymotion.com/fun-zone) – Nurseryman