#Speeding up android emulator mac how to#
While researching how to do this I came across a blog post that said some people’s Windows 8 machines would no longer detect USB devices after enableing VT. When I clicked the OK button the install failed – the Intel VT must be enabled first before you can install HAXM. I was then presented with this message during the HAXM install: You can see that the file you want to execute is IntelHaxm.exe. I navigated to my Eclipse install folder and did a search for “extras” and quickly found the file. The file is downloaded to your “extras” folder which is somewhere within your Eclipse installation directory. I had to find where the installer was downloaded and install it manually. The SDK Manager indicated that HAXM was installed but it in fact was not – it was merely downloaded but not installed. I went to the SDK Manager and selected HAXM from the bottom of the list and downloaded it.
I recently bought a new laptop and proceeded to setup my android dev environment and had gotten to the point of installing HAXM. The following link describes both: Installation Instructions for Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager – Microsoft Windows*. You can install HAXM through the Android SDK Manager (Within Eclipse, go to Window > Android SDK Manager and look for “Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager” under the Extras folder and install it) or via a separate download/install file. See this link – Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool – to see if your system supports Intel’s VT.
The caveat is that your Intel processor has to support Intel’s Virtualization Technology (VT) in order for the drivers to work. However, Intel has a set of hardware accelerator drivers called HAXM for computer’s utilizing it’s chips. The cause of the emulator’s lack of performance is due to it being implemented completely in software. But if you throw hardware acceleration into the mix then it becomes possible to get the emulator working quite well – well enough for everyday use. The typical experience with the Android Emulator on Windows is that it is essentially unusable.