Android Emulator hypervisor driver is a hypervisor to accelerate Android 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 space support for Android Emulator hypervisor driver is available from Android Emulator.
Android Emulator hypervisor driver will be sunset on December 31, 2026. Android Emulator users on Windows will have until the end of 2026 to transition by enabling Windows Hypervisor Platform and performing the required system reboot.
Android Emulator hypervisor driver 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:
- CPU has virtualization extension and BIOS has NOT disabled the extension.
- 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
According to Microsoft, SHA1 driver signing is deprecated (Read more here ). Version 1.8 to 2.1 cannot be loaded on Windows 7 by default. Please use version 1.7 instead. Users may disable driver signature enforcement in order 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 read these guidelines.
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.
A patched QEMU can be found here at github. However, there is no support for it. Use at your own risk.
Android Emulator hypervisor driver used to be called Android Emulator hypervisor driver for AMD Processors. The renaming is to reflect the fact that it supports both Intel and AMD Processors. In fact, it supports Intel from version 1.0. The old name was chosen because Intel users were expected to continue using Intel HAXM.
