Monday, November 11, 2019

Android Emulator Hypervisor for AMD Processors - Open Source

Recently, we've advertised a new SDK package for a hypervisor driver that makes it possible to the emulator on AMD CPUs without needing to enable Hyper-V and with performance on par with HAXM (More details).

As part of this effort, we've released the source code of this hypervisor driver to Github:

https://github.com/google/android-emulator-hypervisor-driver-for-amd-processors

Although it is only compatible with the Android Emulator's engine at the moment, it should not be inherently difficult to port to QEMU or other VMMs, as it is contained in a target backend.