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

Question

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

• QEMU can make use of hardware virtualization through KVM;
• The Android emulator i

Answer 1

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