running multiple android emulators

I have more than one android emulator running, along with devic开发者_运维技巧es connected to the same machine.

I want to to know how to connect to a single emulator/device from the command prompt.

For example: adb shell emulator-5554

But that doesn't work.

You should use -s switch:

adb -s emulator-5554 shell

with the command

adb devices

you get a list of all connected devices like:

$ adb devices
List of devices attached 
emulator-5554  device
emulator-5556  device
emulator-5558  device

Then you can run all commands normally, but you have to attach the -s option e.g.

adb -s emulator-5556 install helloWorld.apk

Take a look at the tutorial if you want to know more about adb.

adb connect xx.xx.xx.xx
adb disconnect xx.xx.xx.xx

it can be X86 Emulators ;)

http://blog.gokifu.com/2011/05/android-x86-faster-emulator/