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Hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator - AEHD not working (STOPPED state) on the laptop with Windows 11 Home

I bought an Asus Rog Strix Laptop which comes with Windows 11 Home.

I want to use it for both Android development and gaming.

So based on the docs I checked the status of Android Emulator hypervisor driver (AEHD):

SERVICE_NAME: aehd
        TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
        STATE              : 1  STOPPED
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 31  (0x1f)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

Docs says that if I have something like:

// from docs example:
SERVICE_NAME: aehd
       ...
       STATE              : 1  STOPPED
       WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 4294967201 (0xffffffa1)
       ...

then

The following error message means either that virtualization extension is not enabled in your BIOS or that Hyper-V is not disabled

Intel VT and VT-d are enabled:

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Windows Task Manager:

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Hyper-V is disabled and not installed at all:

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(actually it should be Hyper-V but it's not even in the list because of Windows Home)

and Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V prints nothing which means it's disabled:

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It seems Hyper-V is not supported by Windows 11 Home though but I guess it should not effect AEHD support? So what can be an issue here? Or do I actually need Window 11 Pro to make AEHD work as well?

Solution

  • Actually there are more things we have to disable:

    I have disabled Virtual Machine Platform and Core Isolation (in Windows Defender / Device Security)

    And now it works:

    SERVICE_NAME: aehd
        TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
        STATE              : 4  RUNNING
                                (STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

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    From Android docs:

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