Tips and Tricks to Run Android Emulator BlueStacks

• Run Multi-Instance BlueStacks
• Configure BlueStacks to Use a Proxy Server
• Root BlueStacks
• Install Third Party CA Certificate into BlueStacks
• Proxy Software
• Could Not Start The Engine Issues I met
• References

Run Multi-Instance BlueStacks

Configure BlueStacks to Use a Proxy Server

1. Start BlueStacks. (It has to be open before running the utiity). If you have multiple instance, it has to be the default master one.
2. Open a Windows command prompt.
   • (eg. hit +R → type cmd → hit Enter )
3. Change to the BlueStacks program folder.
   • (eg. cd C:\Program Files\BlueStacks )
4. Run HD-ConfigHttpProxy.exe :

Usage:

     HD-ConfigHttpProxy.exe set <host> <port>      connect to specified proxy
     HD-ConfigHttpProxy.exe reset                  reset/stop using proxy

For example: HD-ConfigHttpProxy.exe set 192.168.2.236 8080

5. When prompted, close and re-open BlueStacks.

Alternatively, you can specify other proxy protocols by including it in the <host> in standard syntax. For example, I used socks://localhost and my custom port number. It took a couple tries but it worked eventually.

To disconnect / reset BlueStacks proxy settings :

1. Make sure BlueStacks is running
2. Open a command prompt
3. Run command: C:\Program Files\BlueStacks\HD-ConfigHttpProxy.exe reset
4. Close and re-open BlueStacks.

Root BlueStacks

BlueStacks Tweaker
Steps:

Proxy Software

Profiler PE:

ProxyCap:

Could Not Start The Engine Issues I met

• An error message might appear after loading, informing you that BlueStacks “Could not start the Engine” as shown below.

Run following command from a privileged command line window

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”BlueStacks Service” dir=in action=allow remoteip=10.0.2.0/24 localport=2860-2892 protocol=TCP enable=yes

After following the above steps, the Hyper-V compatible BlueStacks should load without any issues on your computer.

References

• Step-by-Step: Using BlueStacks AppPlayer From Behind a Proxy