Hi all, I found instructions for making the Android emulator run faster on Windows and Mac:
http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm
Your virtual device will have to be an x86-based platform… the default one you’re using now is likely an ARM processor… so leave that there and create a new one as shown.
Then you have to enable VM acceleration by running some IntelHAXM.exe utility (there’s a similar one on the Mac, scroll down to the separate heading for that). This won’t work if you’re already working within a VM… it needs to be on the native host OS.
If you can’t get it to work, you can always go back to the ARM virtual device you created initially. Hope it helps.
CL