Enabling Hyper-V for VS 2019 Xamarin debugging - xamarin.android

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Hyper-V Requirements: A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.
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'You can get a greatly improved Android Emulator experience by enabling Hyper-V.`
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