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

Hotfix worked on my Macbook Retina with 10.9. I installed the HAX from Android SDK manager version 3 and it froze on my AVD (x86 CPU using HOST GPU). I downloaded and installed the hotfix without uninstalling HAX version 3 (do a kextstat | grep intel to confirm the version).

The AVD booted in less than 10 seconds....