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

For those of us using older Macs, in particular Core Duo 2 machines, I think there's still a problem. I have an early 2009 iMac with 8GB RAM running Yosemite (10.10.1) and I installed the 1.1.1 version of HAXM (tried both the version that Android SDK Manager downloaded and the one referenced above on Intel's site).

I can run the older ARM images, but like many others who are having issues running the x86 images, e.g. Nexus 5, Nexus 6, it still hangs for me.

In https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/536330, there are a couple of people who are having issues with Core Duo 2 Mavericks machines. It states in the HAXM 1.1.1 Release Notes.txt file:

HAXM driver does not support emulating a 64 bit system image on Intel systems based on Core microarchitecture (Core, Core2 Duo etc.).

But, it seems like even trying to emulate a 32 bit system is problematic.

NB: ARM images work fine.