There are 2 things that you can do to get it over with.

1. Copy the content of `/root/.android/avd` to `$HOME/.android/avd.` Just a matter of a simple command and worked for me. :D

2. Before Android searches for `.ini` files in `$HOME/.android/avd`, it looks for an environmental variable `$ANDROID_AVD_HOME`.

    So you can set its value to `/root/.android/avd.` :)