PSA: Tizen emulator locking up your mac when running mavericks

jonmulcahy

If you try and run the Tizen emulator on a mac that is running Mavericks, there is a good chance it is going to lock up. You can read about the bug here:

https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-15455?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel

Mavericks is currently not supported by HAXM so running the Tizen emulator will result in a crash. HAXM is the Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager. In november they pushed a hot fix:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-end-user-license-agreement-macos-hotfix

If you download and install it (you might get a message about it already being there, and a message at the end about unsigned), the emulator works properly in mavericks.

colander

@jonmulcahy thanks. I reckon that has saved me a large chunk of time I would have spent trying to figure it out the problem and get the emulator to work.

Armelline

Thank you for this! I just tried to run the emulator and it locked up my computer and then I remembered... Hold on a second, didn't I read something about this? Thanks for saving me a lot of time troubleshooting!

LumpApps

HotFix does this:

The kernel extension at “/System/Library/Extensions/intelhaxm.kext” is not from an identified developer but will still be loaded.

Please contact the kernel extension vendor for updated software.

But it works! Finally!

Technaturally

Thank you so much for this information, it really helped!