What is HAXM and what does it have to do with Visual Studio?

When installing Visual Studio, you might see a brief title like "Acquiring HAXM" while you are installing the latest patches and updates.

But what is HAXM, and what does it have to do with Visual Studio? HAXM is an Intel virtualization booster technology, and comes from the words "Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager". It is related to Android mobile application development in the context of Visual Studio.

Hope this clarifies the situation!