I can't install intel HAXM

Question

I installed Android Studio and I had no problems with that. However, when I tried to run the emulator, it said that Intel HAXM was not installed.

So I found the inst

Answer 1

Note: this is not an answer because I could not find a solution. But I think the information may be useful for others (and it wouldn't be practical as a comment). I have tried all of the steps detailed in the various docs but I could not get Android Emulator to work on my AMD Ryzen 7 :(

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Most answers work only for Intel CPUs. If you have an AMD CPU (like me, an AMD Ryzen 7) you need to know about some restrictions and you have to use WHPX instead of HAXM.

I found this on MS's site: Because the Android emulator currently supports AMD hardware acceleration only on Linux, hardware acceleration is not available for AMD-based computers running Windows.

Fortunatelly there is a way to make it work but configuring hardware acceleration for an AMD CPU is a bit more complex:

Requirements and recommendations: - AMD CPU recommendation: AMD Ryzen CPU - Android Studio 3.2 Beta 1 or higher - Android Emulator version 27.3.8 or higher - Windows 10 with April 2018 Update or higher

To use WHPX acceleration on Windows, you must enable the Windows Hypervisor Platform option in the Turn Windows features on or off dialog box. For changes to this option to take effect, restart your computer.

Additionally, the following changes must be made in the BIOS settings: - AMD CPU: Virtualization or SVM must be enabled.

Note that there are further restrictions as well:

• You can't run a VM-accelerated emulator inside another VM, such as a VM hosted by VirtualBox, VMWare, or Docker. You must run the emulator directly on your system hardware.
• You can't run software that uses another virtualization technology at the same time that you run the accelerated emulator. For example, VirtualBox, VMWare, and Docker currently use a different virtualization technology, so you can't run them at the same time as the accelerated emulator.

Some more info: Android Emulator - AMD Processor & Hyper-V Support

This recommendation did not help either:

Please note: More recent versions of the emulator (27.2.8, 27.3.0, or later), require an emulator flag while the feature is in the preview. To do this, create or edit the file C:\Users\.android\advancedFeatures.ini and add the line “WindowsHypervisorPlatform = on”, or start the emulator from the command line with “-feature WindowsHypervisorPlatform”.