It's actually far faster than an ARM emulation (provided that you are running on Linux with kvm enabled). Last I heard, there was a bug in the released SDK's version that was causing the emulator to have a very slow start-up time. If it isn't already fixed in the master branch, I'll see about getting the fix uploaded there.
Note: you will also need to load in kvm (on Linux): sudo modprobe kvm sudo modprobe kvm_intel -Bruce On Jan 12, 2:20 pm, Anirudh Sivaraman <sk.anir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I read an earlier thread where it said the Android emulator was now capable > of running x86 images, (for avd's such as the one used in Google-TV) but > that it's performance was no better than conventional ARM emulation on ARM > images. Has anything improved on this front , for instance, by exploiting > hardware virtualization , as in VirtualBox ? For reference, the thread is > :http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > Anirudh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en