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Intel HAXM (полное название Intel ® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager) — программа-гипервизор, использующая аппаратную виртуализацию для ускорения эмуляции 32-битных образов Android.

Как правило, эмуляция различных операционных систем, и, тем более, устройств — вещь достаточно ресурсоемкая. В частности так дело обстоит с эмуляцией Android на персональных компьютерах под управлением Windows. Система будет подтормаживать, и запуск даже небольшого андроид-приложения может занять достаточно длительное время.

Чтобы немного увеличить скорость работы этой системы на некоторых конфигурациях можно использовать HAXM. Он не является эмулятором в полном смысле этого слова, это своего рода надстройка для других эмуляторов, расширяющая возможности виртуализации и позволяющая ускорить работу существующих 32-битных эмуляторов Android.

Программа будет полезна разработчикам и всем, кто хочет использовать на компьютере мобильную операционную систему. Благодаря Intel HAXM можно запускать несколько эмуляторов с разными версиями Android на одном компьютере. Она не сильно потребляет ресурсы и автоматически распределяет их между запущенными контейнерами.

Haxm installer windows download

wcwang released this Aug 13, 2018

Change Log

• Improved memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) handling (#42).
• Improved host CPU feature detection (#63).
• Fixed INVEPT errors for macOS and 32-bit Windows hosts (#69, #64).
• Fixed a BSOD that had affected some Android Emulator users on Windows 10 version 1803 (#68).
• Fixed a driver signature issue that had prevented some Windows 7 users from installing HAXM (#56).

wcwang released this May 8, 2018

Change Log

• Enabled experimental support for guest RAM protection, which makes it possible to implement on-demand RAM snapshot loading.
• Fixed an issue where booting an ISO image in QEMU would lead to a hang (#15).
• Enabled booting Zircon guests (#7, requires a QEMU-side change).
• Fixed an issue where certain x86 guests (e.g. Debian Squeeze i386) would fail to boot with a large RAM configuration.
• Dropped support for macOS 10.9.

wcwang released this Mar 14, 2018

Change Log

• Updated the virtual CPU model to enable support for the Execute Disable (a.k.a. NX) feature.
• Improved memory usage tracking logic for future use cases.
• Added a new IOCTL to support mapping memory regions of 4GB or larger.

wcwang released this Jan 12, 2018

Change Log

• Added an API to lift the 4GB guest RAM size limitation.
  • Note that a QEMU-side change is required for this feature to take effect.

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HAXM Installation Failed. Install Intel HAXM in Windows

HAXM Installation Failed is a very common error that occurs when installing Android Studio. This guide explains what is Intel HAXM and how to install Intel HAXM. We will also look at various issues that may result in HAXM installation failed error and how to solve them.

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What is Intel HAXM

The HAXM stands for Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager. It is a cross-platform hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor), The Android Emulator use HAXM in intel platforms to speedup & improve performance

Why HAXM Installation Fails

The Android Studio Installs Intel HAXM when you install Android Studio. But you may get the HAXM Installation Failed message because of the following reasons

• Android emulator is already running
• The processor is not Intel-based
• Unsupported OS
• Hyper-V Manager must be disabled
• Virtualization must be enabled in Bios ( VT-x )
• The PC must support Virtualisation
• Antivirus (Avast) may interfere with HAXM Installation

Android emulator is already running

You should stop the Android emulator, if it is already running.

You can stop it from the AVD Manager. On the action, column click down-arrow on the right and click Stop. This stops the emulator.

Or you can restart the computer.

The processor is not Intel-based

Intel HAXM cannot be used on systems without an Intel processor. Even if the processor is Intel, it still needs to have the support VT-x, EM64T, and Execute Disable Bit

OS Not supported

• Supported Windows OS is 7, 8, 8.1 & 10.
• Supported macOS is 10.12, 10.13 & 10.14
• Only 64 bit OS is supported.

Disable the Hyper-V Manager

Hyper-V is another Virtualisation technique just like Intel HAXM. You cannot use both at the same time. Hence, It is necessary to Disable Hyper-V. You can follow these steps to disable Hyper-V

1. Go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off
2. From the window disable Hyper-V options
3. Reboot your machine

Hyper-V might not be disabled

If you have windows 10 features such as Device Guard and Credential Guard is enabled, it can prevent Hyper-V from being completely disabled.

The Device Guard and Credential Guard hardware readiness tool released by Microsoft can disable the said Windows 10 features along with Hyper-V:

1. Download the latest version of the Device Guard and Credential Guard hardware readiness tool.
2. Unzip
3. Open the Command Prompt using Run as administrator
4. Run the following command
5. @powershell -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Command «X:\path\to\dgreadiness_v3.6\DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 -Disable»
6. Reboot.

Virtualization is disabled in Bios

If virtualization is disabled in the BIOS, you need to enable it.

Turn off the PC and then turn it On. Press either F2, DEL, F10 ( The key may differ in your PC) key to enter the BIOS at the startup. You will likely to see a message at the startup regarding the key to press to enter the BIOS

Enabling Virtualisation in Bios

You may see the Virtualisation under any of the following menus.

• Chipset
• Northbridge
• Advanced Chipset Control
• Advanced CPU Configuration

The feature may go by the name

• VT-x
• VT-d (as in the above image)
• Intel Virtualization Technology
• Intel VT
• Virtualization Extensions
• Vanderpool

PC Does not support Virtualisation

Your CPU may not support Virtualisation. You can refer to Does My Processor Support Intel® Virtualization Technology? article to check if your PC Supports Virtualisation

Antivirus interferes with HAXM Installation

The Avast Antivirus interferes with the HAXM installation. It may also slow down the Android Emulator. The workaround is goto Avast Settings > Troubleshooting and uncheck “Use nested virtualization where available” option

How to Install HAXM

There are two ways in which you can install Intel HAXM.

1. Using the Android SDK Manager
2. Direct Download & Install

Installing from Android SDK Manager

Go to Android SDK Manager (Tools -> SDK Manager) and select SDK Tools. You will find the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator HAXM installer listed here. Select it and click on OK.

Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator HAXM installer

The clicking OK button does not install the HAXM Always. But it will copy the downloaded files to the under the SDK Location /sdk/extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager/

You can then click on the intelhaxm-android.exe to install as shown below

Direct Download & Install

You can directly download the Installer from the link HAXM Releases

Once you unzip the file, you will find the intelhaxm-android.exe

Welcome to the Intel HAXM setup wizard

Click on Next to complete the installation.

Check if Intel HAXM Can be installed

Use the haxm_check.exe to check if VT is supported in your PC

Check if HAXM is installed

Finally, you need to check if HAXM is installed and running. You can do it from the command prompt by using the command

Reference

Summary

Installing Intel HAXM is a must if you want to run Android Emulator in Windows PC. Without which the Android Emulator will run very slowly. It is installed, when Android Studio is installed, but you get the HAXM Installation Failed error message. The most common error is due to the fact that Virtualisation is not enabled on your PC. Or because HyperVisor is running or the processor is not intel based. We learned how to solve all these issues in this guide

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I had the most strange situation:
– In Bios, virtualization was enabled
– the intel processor I use virtualization VT-X, but the Intel® Processor Identification Utility was showing the virtualization greyed out as if my computer did not have it at all
– Windows 10 task manager shows Virtualization is available
– Haxm couldn’t be installed

I removed docker, went to Turn Windows Features on or off to uncheck Containers, Hyper-V, rebooted, run the DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 script, but still did not work.

The only thing that could be possibly blocking Virtualization (VT-X) from being found by HAXM installer was the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which I unchecked from Windows features. Now finally I have virtualization support enabled. So the solution in my case was to completely remove WSL from Windows 10.

PS C:\temp\haxm> .\haxm_check.exe
VT support — yes
NX support — yes

I was able to install Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer) in Android Studio > Android SDK > SDK Tools:

Intel HAXM

A hardware assisted virtualization engine that utilizes Intel Virtualization technology

Operating system: Windows

Last revision: Last week

Intel HAXM (full name Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager) — a supervisor program that uses hardware virtualization to accelerate the emulation of 32-bit Android images.

As a rule, emulation of various operating systems, and, moreover, devices & mdash; a thing rather resource-intensive. In particular, this is the case with Android emulation on personal computers running Windows. The system will slow down, and even a small android application can take quite a long time to start.

You can use HAXM to slightly increase the speed of the system on some configurations. It is not an emulator in the full sense of the word, it is a kind of add-on for other emulators, expanding the possibilities of virtualization and making it possible to accelerate the work of existing 32-bit Android emulators.

The program will be useful for developers and anyone who wants to use a mobile operating system on a computer. With Intel HAXM, you can run multiple emulators with different versions of Android on the same computer. It does not consume much resources and automatically distributes them between running containers.

The program will only work on computers that support VT-x. The archive has a utility haxm_check.exe which you can use to find out if your system is suitable for installing the program.

— a hypervisor for Android;

— use of hardware virtualization;

— allows to run several emulators in one system;

— low pressure on resources;

— not bad performance;

— support for the latest versions of Android platforms and new APIs.