haxm

Interesting. I remember playing with VT-x using Intel's HAXM framework [0] that installs its own Windows driver with a much nicer user-facing API, basically does what the chapters 2, 3 and 4 of the tutorial end up implementing, so you can spin up an empty, ready to go VM already in the 64-bit mode quite easily. [0] https://github.com/intel/haxm

https://github.com/intel/haxm looks cool, thanks! Windows Home support saves a few bucks.

I don't understand,the yuzu (switch) emulator has excellent performance and correctness. It perfectly emulate a modern ARM cpus at multiple GHz and properly emulate the Tegra Nvidia GPU. Why would emulating x86 be so much harder, especially since you can actually use the host x86 cpu... via hardware hyoervisors e.g. https://github.com/intel/haxm

Technically this can happens also on Linux: https://github.com/intel/haxm but probably there KVM is much better as first choice.

8 GB when using Android emulator and Xamarin has been a pain for me, but my iMac doesn't have a SSD drive (it's got an Apple Fusion drive). The machine was swapping all the time, e.g. when alt-tabbing between Android emulator and Xamarin. After upgrading to 24 GB the machine became very usable. I wouldn't ever want to go back to 8 GB. Perhaps 16 GB might be usable for iOS and Xamarin development, especially if the Android emulator can run in some kind of HAXM [0] mode, but for ARM processors ... not sure if that's possible right now. I'm sure the SSD also makes a big difference compared to my Fusion drive right now. Still it feels safer (more future-proof) if the machine has a bit more memory than 16 GB. --- [0]: https://github.com/intel/haxm/wiki/Installation-Instructions...

Looks like the superiors just replied :) https://github.com/intel/haxm/issues/5#issuecomment-34652021...

Already in the issue tracker, although the "have to ask my superiors" comment isn't too encouraging: https://github.com/intel/haxm/issues/5

If AMD are at all smart they'll be attempting to contribute AMD-V support to https://github.com/intel/haxm ASAP. Now that will be a fun pull request to watch.

From https://github.com/intel/haxm : HAXM is a hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor) that uses Intel Virtualization Technology to speed up IA (x86/ x86_64) emulation on a host machine running Windows or macOS.