Question

Starting with Android SDK Tools rev 17 the Android emulator supports using the hardware virtualization feature (Intel VT, VT-x, vmx and AMD-V, SVM) which should speed-up x86 based emulator images a lot: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm

I installed all necessary components:

• The newest SDK tools
• The Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (and installed it by executing IntelHaxm.exe)
• Intel Atom x86 System Image (available as API 10 and API 15 image)

Then I created a new AVD using that image, but I could not “feel” any difference regarding the execution speed.

Therefore my question is: How to find out if hardware virtualization feature is used?

And if not what needs to be done to use it?

I know that it is enabled by the BIOS, because I can run Windows 64 bit VMs in VirtualBox.
Additionally I have verified it using the Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool.

Answer 1

During emulator loading you should see this line:

[2012-03-26 14:06:22 – Emulator] HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode