Android emulator is based on QEMU. Can I use KVM with it?

Question

My laptop supports hardware virtualization (AMD SVM) and I know that:

• QEMU can make use of hardware virtualization through KVM;
• The Android emulator i

Answer 1

You can try to use AndroidVM - http://androvm.org/blog/ ... In my testing you can have Hardware OpenGL and Rotation Support as well (this is slightly convoluted but everything is explained on the AndroidVM page).

In my experience this is miles better than the Android SDK Emulator, at least on Windows and Mac.

For Linux, you should be able to use VirtualBox for Linux to use AndroidVM. Since it is an OVA file mainly, you should be able to use other Virtualisation clients as needed.

What's interesting is that this is NOT emulating ARM, it is Android on x86... which has pros and cons, but definitely helps in not having to buy a ton of devices if you can do initial testing of various sorts on virtual machines, since Android 4.1 is generally not too heavily modified by manufacturers across ARM and x86 phones and tablets, etc (IMO).