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