Accelerate Android virtual machines with HAXM

Android virtual machine on the CPU supporting Intel VT technology, can use HAXM (Hardware accelerated execution Manager) to get hardware acceleration support, so that the virtual machine running speed is greatly improved, 5-10 times faster.

Note that you have to have a CPU that supports VT, which is Intel's, so AMD's CPU estimates are out of the process. Support VT CPU specifically can query Http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology, generally i5 above the CPU is no problem. To use HAXM technology, configure the following in the Android development environment: 1. Upgrade Eclipse Plugin, using the latest version of ADT. 2. Upgrade Android SDK tools to the latest version, the version that supports HAXM is starting from 17. 3. Download the Intel x86 Atom system Image in the Android SDK Manager and you can download only the system that corresponds to your API version. 4. Download the Intel Hardware Accelerated execution Manager Driver in the Android SDK manager, which is under the extras category and is not installed by default. 5. Install the Intel HAXM driver. After you finish the 4th step, you can find the installer in the Android-sdk\extras\intel\hardware_accelerated_execution_manager directory, for example Haxm-windows_ R02.exe, can be installed. If your CPU does not support VT, you will be prompted not to install it. 6. Create the x86 AVD. This is a simple step, to create an Android virtual machine, the key is that the CPU should choose Intel x86 Atom, otherwise the speed will not rise.

Accelerate Android virtual machines with HAXM