Enable hardware acceleration of AMD processors for android emulators

There are many android emulators out there which do not take advantage of WHPX or Hyper-V specially for AMD processors. (what is Hyper-V)

This post is part of a series - Running performant android emulator for Window 10, AMD processor and RX580 GPU.

Step 1 - Check if your CPU supports it

• Open Command prompt and type "systeminfo" and scroll to Hyper-V Requirements section.

• All four requirements should say "Yes" to proceed.
• If it says No, that means either virtualization is disabled in BIOS or your CPU does not support virtualization.

Step 2 - Turn on Hyper-V

• Type "Turn Windows features on or off" in windows search to open the app and enable Hyper-V and Windows Hypervisor Platform

Step 3 - Add it to emulator properties

• This assumes you have android studio installed and already downloaded some emulator AVD's.
• Go to ".android" folder usually located "c:\Users\<XXXX>\.android"
• Create a file "advancedFeatures.ini" if not present in the folder and add the line

WindowsHypervisorPlatform = on

• Another alternative is to start the emulator from command line with following option, but you would have to invoke it every time.

Emulator -avd  -feature WindowsHypervisorPlatform

FYI for Hyper-V

• Windows 10 Enterprise, Pro, or Education
• 64-bit Processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT).
• CPU support for VM Monitor Mode Extension (VT-c on Intel CPUs).
• Minimum of 4 GB memory
• You may be able to run other virtualization applications after turning it on, like for e.g. Bluestacks.
• Additional Info and below image source - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/get-started/installation/android-emulator/hardware-acceleration?pivots=windows