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Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver for AMD Processors

Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver for AMD Processors is a hypervisor to accelerate Android Emulator. It is made by porting KVM to Windows (Windows 7 or later, 64bit).

Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver for AMD Processors runs as a Windows driver. User space support for Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver for AMD Processors is available from Android Emulator.

Download and Install

Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver for AMD Processors is released through android-studio. However, only Android Studio with version 4.0 canary 5 or above can both download and install/update the driver. Otherwise, the Android Studio will only download the driver package without performing installation. In the latter case, users are required to install the driver manually.

Prerequisite:

1. CPU has virtualization extension and BIOS has NOT disabled the extension.
2. Hyper-V must be disabled. Refer to this page for more information.

Install Instruction:

Use an administrator command console to execute "silent_install.bat" inside the driver package. Make sure you see the desired output from the installer: STATE: 4 RUNNING

Contributing

If you would like to contribute a patch to the code base, please read these guidelines.

Reporting an Issue

You are welcome to file an issue at Issuetracker. Please remember to supply your OS information, CPU model in addition to details on the issue.

Notes

A patched QEMU can be found here at github. However, there is no support for it. Use at your own risk.

As its name suggests, Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver for AMD Processors is developed and tested on AMD platform. We only make our best effort in keeping Intel Processor support.