intel/haxm
Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3326
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1313
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3305 stars · 885 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager is a cross-platform hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor) that runs as a kernel-mode driver, exposing Intel VT-x capabilities to user space via a KVM-like interface. It was widely used to accelerate the Android Emulator and QEMU on Windows and macOS, but Intel has discontinued the project.
Use cases
- accelerate the Android Emulator on Windows or macOS
- speed up QEMU virtual machines with Intel VT-x
- run hardware-assisted virtualization on hosts without Hyper-V or HVF
- provide a KVM-like hypervisor interface on Windows and macOS
When to choose
- you must run legacy toolchains that specifically depend on HAXM
- you are maintaining a fork or studying hypervisor driver implementation on Windows/macOS
When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - use Hyper-V (Windows) or Hypervisor.framework (macOS) instead
- you need maintained software with bug fixes and security updates
- you are on Linux, where KVM is the standard choice
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform operating-systems windows cpp c android-emulator qemu intel-vt kernel-driver hardware-acceleration discontinued virtualization hypervisor macos linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/intel/haxm · fetched 2026-08-28 · 03c1558b3a11
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| intel/haxm | main | 10 |
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