Android Emulator Doesn't Use HAXM

Question

I'm having a problem with HAXM. Before I was using Windows 7 and everything was fine but after upgrading to Win8.1 Pro I can't see haxm started message when I start up an emulator from AVD screen. HAXM is installed and working fine, I installed images for x86,my device using it but still can't see confirmation message in launch window that Emulator is using haxm.

Here is the situation ;

• My processor supports vt.
• I have checked my services and all Hyper-VT services are "Stopped"
• HAXM installed succesfully without a problem. (v1.1.0)
• When I input "sc query intelhaxm" in cmd, it looks that it's running.
• I tried using Android L , Android 4.4.2 (got images installed for both of them) with Use Host GPU Checked/Unchecked. Also tried everything with all Skin options and Hardware Keyboard Checked/Unchecked.
• Tried creating bunch of new devices with different configurations still nothing.

I have tried every solution I found on the internet, anything am I missing? Why can't I see confirmation message that haxm is working in emulator launch window?

Answer 1

Please check the below 2 items:

• Make sure you are creating the AVD with x86 image. AVD manager will not show the x86 option if you did not download that specific API level x86 images in SDK manager

• Once you have your emulator started, goto windows task manager, and look for a process name emulator-x86.exe; if you did not find it, and instead found emulator-arm.exe; Check your avd configuration as discussed in above point.

If the above looks ok, here is some notes on HAXM installation on windows 8.1:

• I am using win 8.1 too with haxm v1.1.0, sometimes i do not the confirmation message if i configured the webcam, as it opens another window.

• As long as you run sc query intelhaxm and confirm it is in RUNNING state , you are ok. You can visually see the difference in performance with HAXM and without.

The below screenshot is on Windows 8.1 with HAXM 1.1.0 -