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Android Emulator hypervisor driver is a hypervisor to accelerateAndroid Emulator. It is made by porting KVM to Windows(Windows 8.1 or later, 64bit).

Android Emulator hypervisor driver runs as a Windows driver. User spacesupport for Android Emulator hypervisor driver is available from AndroidEmulator.

Android Emulator hypervisor driver will be sunset on December 31, 2026.Android Emulator users on Windows will have until the end of 2026 totransition by enabling Windows Hypervisor Platform and performing therequired system reboot.

Android Emulator hypervisor driver is released throughandroid-studio.However, only Android Studio with version 4.0 canary 5 or above can bothdownload and install/update the driver. Otherwise, the AndroidStudio 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 tothispagefor more information.

Install Instruction:

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

According to Microsoft, SHA1 driver signing is deprecated (Read morehere). Version 1.8 to 2.1 cannot be loaded on Windows 7 by default. Pleaseuse version 1.7 instead. Users may disable driver signature enforcement inorder to use version 1.8 to 2.1.

Starting from version 2.2, Windows 7 is not supported any more.

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

You are welcome to file an issue atIssuetracker. Please remember to supplyyour OS information, CPU model in addition to details on the issue.

A patched QEMU can be found here atgithub. However, there is no support forit. Use at your own risk.

Android Emulator hypervisor driver used to be called Android Emulatorhypervisor driver for AMD Processors. The renaming is to reflect the factthat it supports both Intel and AMD Processors. In fact, it supports Intelfrom version 1.0. The old name was chosen because Intel users were expectedto continue using Intel HAXM.