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Emulator Version: 25.2.2-3098464
Android SDK Tools: 25.2.2
Host Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Steps to Reproduce Bug:
1. Create an API 24 emulator
2. Launch the emulator from command line, with "-gpu guest" flag:
 emulator -gpu guest -verbose -avd nex5x_24_64 -no-window -partition-size 512 -no-snapshot-save -no-snapshot-load -qemu -vnc :1 -m 2047 -enable-kvm
3. Attempt to launch a webview, or run the code from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/cts/+/73e3f96/tests/tests/graphics/src/android/opengl/cts/OpenGlEsVersionTest.java to detect the gles version number

Expected Behavior:
- Webview should open successfully
- gles version number should report a value > 1

Observed Behavior:
- Webview crashes from:
chromium: [FATAL:gpu_info_collector_android.cc(193)] failed to create a pbuffer surface for fetching driver strings. EGL_SUCCESS (3000)
- gles version number is reported as 1.


Note that using the emulator from android tools 25.1.7 with the same AVD and still using "-gpu guest" results in a functional Webview and the gles version detection is > 1.

This appears to be a regression in behavior, and seemingly invalidates the proposed resolution in https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=189040

The report from a Googler in https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=224583 makes it sound like "-gpu guest" may be deprecated now (it is equivalent to "off"), though nothing related appears in the 25.2.2 release notes at https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/sdk-tools.html 

Although the newer "-gpu swiftshader" option seems to fix the webview/gles problems, it's seemingly incompatible with qemu VNC support (a vnc connection displays "Guest has not initialized the display (yet).").