title: Android emulator: how to find out if hardware virtualization feature is used?
body: <p>Starting with Android SDK Tools rev 17 the Android emulator supports using the hardware virtualization feature (Intel VT, VT-x, vmx and AMD-V, SVM) which should speed-up x86 based emulator images a lot: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm</a></p>
  
  <p>I installed all necessary components:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The newest SDK tools</li>
  <li>The Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (and <a href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/installation-instructions-for-intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-windows/" rel="noreferrer">installed it by executing IntelHaxm.exe</a>)</li>
  <li>Intel Atom x86 System Image (available as API 10 and API 15 image)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Then I created a new AVD using that image, but I could not "feel" any difference regarding the execution speed.</p>
  
  <p>Therefore my question is: <strong>How to find out if hardware virtualization feature is used?</strong></p>
  
  <p>And if not what needs to be done to use it?</p>
  
  <p>I know that it is enabled by the BIOS, because I can run Windows 64 bit VMs in VirtualBox.
  Additionally I have verified it using the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=592" rel="noreferrer">Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool</a>.</p>