# intel/haxm

Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM)

Repository: https://github.com/intel/haxm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/haxm
Language: C
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-01-28T11:14:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3326, "days_push": 1313, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3305, forks 885 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:55.843482+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform, operating-systems
- platform: windows, cpp, c
- tags: android-emulator, qemu, intel-vt, kernel-driver, hardware-acceleration, discontinued, virtualization, hypervisor, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- intel/haxm (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:55.843482+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:12:49.837152+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/intel/haxm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:55.843482+00:00, sha 03c1558b3a11)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.