How to speed up Android Emulation?

Question

I\'m trying to get started with Android development.

I\'m using eclipse on Linux and using a Pentium IV @3.2Gh with 1GB of ram. I\'ve just followed the \"hello and

Answer 1

Bumping the amount of ram on a honeycomb AVD from 256M to 1GM resulted in huge speedup. It was taking ~1 minute to $ adb install -r foo.apk; now it take 4 seconds. I think the emulator was going into swap!