Android emulator freezing OS X v10.9 (Mavericks) with HAXM

Question

I just updated to OS X v10.9 (Mavericks), and now whenever I start up any of my emulators, as soon as the emulator starts up, my entire computer freezes with a spinning

Answer 1

Good news! The great guys at Intel are currently testing a fix and are testing it now (Alexander from Intel's response pasted below)

Hi,

We identified the root cause of this issue. The Intel HaXM team is testing an update to support newly released OSes (Microsoft Windows* 8.1 and OS X Mavericks*). Look for word on our upcoming update.

Thanks, Alex

This is a known issue though Mavericks GM has only been released to developers recently. I have notified Intel here:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/477793

UPDATE:

THIS IS A RESPONSE FROM INTEL I HAVE PASTED BELOW FROM THEIR FORUM

Hi,

Thanks for your replies. We are investigating into this issue at the moment. Please note that OS X 10.9 is not an supported OS version for the actual version of HAXM. I will update this thread as soon as I have new information or a fix/workaround is available.

Thanks, Alex

Click here to view this Forum topic and respond:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/comment/1761988#comment-1761988

And a further update:

We identified the root cause of this issue. The Intel HaXM team is testing an update to support newly released OSes (Microsoft Windows* 8.1 and OS X Mavericks*). Look for word on our upcoming update.

Another update:

I assume we release a fix somewhere between a few days and two weeks. We know that a lot of people are waiting for the fix, so we try to release it as fast as possible.

Thanks for your patience!

INTEL HAVE PROVIDED A HOTFIX

Great news: The hotfix is available for download! Please go to http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager/. There is a hotfix for Microsoft Windows* 8.1 and one for OS X 10.9.
Let us know if the hotfix is working for you.

Thanks all for helping us resolving this issue!