WHPX enables the creation of virtual processors that can emulate instructions taking advantage of the accelerators provided by the underlying hardware processor. WHPX adds an extended user-mode API to create and manage partitions at the hypervisor level, configure memory mappings for the partition, and create and control execution of virtual processors. This is made possible by a new API Microsoft recently open-sourced, Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHPX). Adding support for AMD processors and Hyper-V to the Windows Android Emulator, Google has been addressing two long-standing user requests from the developer community, writes Google product manager Jamal Eason. While native AMD support has been available for a long time on Mac and Linux, this was not the case when using Windows, where the Android Emulator was bound to use software emulation. The latest release of the Android Emulator for Windows aims to boost performance when running on AMD processors or a Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor by bringing support for hardware accelerated enhancements that were previously only available for Intel processors.
