First, make sure you follow the instructions to enable virtualization support for the emulator. If you don’t, everything will work fine except you won’t see a performance improvement:
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html#vm-windows
Then follow these instructions to create an Android 2.3.3 AVD with Google Maps support, with corrections and thanks to http://38911bytes.blogspot.de/2012/03/how-to-use-google-maps-api-in-android.html:
- In Android Virtual Device Manager create an AVD with target “Google APIs (Google Inc.) – API Level 10”
- emulator -avd name_of_avd
- adb pull /system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
- adb pull /system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
- (optional) Remove the AVD you just created in the Android Virtual Device Manager
- In Android Virtual Device Manager create an AVD with target “Intel Atom x86 system Image (Intel Corporation) – API Level 10”
- emulator -partition-size 1024 -no-snapshot-save -avd name_of_avd
- adb remount rw
- adb push com.google.android.maps.xml /system/etc/permissions
- adb push com.google.android.maps.jar /system/framework
- Download mkfs.yaffs2.x86
- adb push mkfs.yaffs2.x86 /data
- adb shell
- cd /data
- chmod 777 mkfs.yaffs2.x86
- ./mkfs.yaffs2.x86 /system system.img
- exit
- adb pull /data/system.img (…be patient)
- Copy system.img into the avd directory for the avd you just created (likely in ~/.android/avd/name_of_avd.avd/)
- Reboot emulator
You’re done! You can use essentially the same instructions using the new ICS (4.0.3) image if you want to use Google Maps on ICS.