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We have two questions about Android Development on Windows:
1.
We need to enable Hyper-V on a rented Windows server (remote server) so that we can start Android Emulator on it in an accelerated way.
Unfortunately, we are not successful in setting up Hyper-V. The server provider tells us that he has installed Hyper-V and wonders about our problems.
But when we start the app in visual studio, we get the message that hyper-V is not installed and enabled!?
What exactly should we tell our server provider so that it knows what to do?
2.
Does it make sense to develop Android applications on a remote server, or would it be better to do it on a server or PC in the company? We are aware of one disadvantage, which is the redirection from the remote server to our own PC, so that we can connect Android Mobile via UBS (i.e. if we do not want to run the application only via Android emulator on the remote server).
Thanks
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Note that Google warns against running the Android Emulator under nested virtualization and doesn't support hardware acceleration in that scenario. It's dreadfully slow and practically speaking unusable.
If you need to run an emulator in a cloud server and not on bare metal you'll want to look into other emulators. I don't have any specific recommendations.
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-acceleration#vm-accel-restrictions
Restrictions VM acceleration has the following restrictions:
- You can't run a VM-accelerated emulator inside another VM, such as a VM hosted by VirtualBox, VMWare, or Docker. You must run a VM-accelerated emulator directly on your host computer.
- Depending on your operating system and hypervisor, you can't run software that uses another virtualization technology at the same time that you run a VM-accelerated emulator. For example, VirtualBox, VMWare, and Docker currently use a different virtualization technology, so you can't run them at the same time as the accelerated emulator.
We have received a real root server, not a virtual one.
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the windows hypervisor platform is different than Hyper-V. It is a hyper-v add-on that allows Hyper-V applications to also run an emulator.
on windows 11 & server 2022 its a check box on features.
on windows server 2019, use command line:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName "HypervisorPlatform" -Online
Thank you very much Bruce (SqlWork.com) , we will forward your answer to our server provider and are looking forward to seeing if it works for them
We have forwarded your comments to the provider. However, he was very short on this and wrote the following:
The thing will just check a Windows desktop feature. Fact: Hyper-V role is installed, ergo CPU and Windows as it should be.
Please contact your software publisher so that they can solve the problem. I can't really help.
His answer doesn't really make sense, especially since he rents the servers and should know about it!
Thanks anyway
PS: I mark the question as answered
Thanks Bruce. What about the question of whether you should develop Cross Platform on the server or rather on a workstation (in your own company)?