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

It seems like problems will persist even if you install and run getting "HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode." If you have Xcode open when running Android Studio, it appears that Xcode is reserving a partition for its simulator even if the sim isn't open.

You might see a "No Connected Devices" in the "6. Android" tab but see it running in the DDMS. You might also see the "Emulator null 5556 [OFFLINE]" show up then loose connection and revert back to "Not Connected Devices."

I've been using the HAXM emulator successfully for a while on my Mac Mini 4GB RAM machine, but as soon as I tried running the Nexus 10 emulator, I starting to see a ton of problems launching the app.

The long and short of it is that you need to close/disable Xcode, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, or any other VM that uses virtualization technology to run the HAXM emulator and the default emulator efficiently.

After closing Xcode, I was able to open the emulator with no problems right off the bat, most likely because of the the CPU restrictions of my system.