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

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Felix picture Felix · Apr 8, 2010 · Viewed 25.5k times · Source

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

  • QEMU can make use of hardware virtualization through KVM;
  • The Android emulator is very much based on QEMU

Natural question follows: can I combine the two (Android+KVM) to get improved performance in the emulator?

Answer

David Evans picture David Evans · Jan 13, 2013

Yes, you can. Just download the appropriate Intel atom CPU packages in the Android SDK and have your AVD use an Intel atom CPU architecture. The android emulator can even use the host gpu. Here is a link on how to do it:

http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#acceleration

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