Haxm Hangs Emulator On Osx

After installing Intel HAXM on my osx 10.6.8, eclipse juno, adt 21.1.0 I am not able to run any of the emulators. The emulator process fries my cpu as in: where cpu usage never go

Solution 1:

You can try disabling the Hardware Graphics acceleration.

1. Start the AVD Manager
2. Select your AVD instance
3. In the Hardware section: If GPU emulation option is not there, click New, select GPU emulation
4. Change the value to No
5. Start your AVD instance

Solution 2:

This issue has been fixed by Intel. If you go to:

Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager 1.0.6 (R3)

.. and download and install the item:

Hotfix for OS X 10.9 only

haxm-macosx_r03_hotfix.zip

.. it now works. I can run nice fast Android emulators on Mac OSX 10.9 without my whole machine freezing.

Solution 3:

See http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/477793 Intel is aware of it and is looking into it. Unfortunately, the only workaround is to not use HAXM on OSX Mavericks.

Solution 4:

I know this is an old post but I'm also having this problem lately, running on Windows. How I got by this problem was either:

1. Use an emulator target version 17 or higher.

2. Set up the settings as follows with older emulator target versions:

• Make sure you untick "Use Host GPU" and tick "Snapshot"
• Tick "Save to snapshot" on launch options

You don't have to scale it, you can leave that unticked