Use Android Studio's emulator for running a Xamarin Form project?

[Cheap Programmer]

It seems that Visual Studio comes with its own Android emulator that tries to use Hyper-V. But I already have Android Studio installed which has an Android emulator, for which I have created a few AVD's that use Google's AMD hypervisor driver (sort of like Intel's HAXM, but for AMD CPU's) which do not use Hyper-V.

Is it possible to use those AVD's for running a Xamarin Form project with Visual Studio? It seems that those AVD's show up in the emulator list, but Visual Studio says Hyper-V is not installed.

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