Android emulator: how to find out if hardware virtualization feature is used?

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 bas

Answer 1

A quick solution for Windows platform, Launch CMD as an administrator and type this command

SC query INTELHAXM

And you should see output like this (if hardware acceleration is up and running)

SERVICE_NAME: intelhaxm
    TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
    STATE              : 4  RUNNING
                            (STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
    WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
    SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
    CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
    WAIT_HINT          : 0x0