Android Emulator With Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager is Freezing/crashing on Mac OS X
If you are trying to run your Android apps in a harware accelerated android emulator on Mac OS X, you may experience a crash, or your whole mac will freeze up, ending in a reboot. The default installation of intel HAXM that comes with the Android SDK manager is version 1.0.6. Intel has released a Hotfix, revision 03 of the HAXM software, available here. Download and install the “haxm-macosxr03hotfix.zip”, Which has a version number of 1.0.
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