I am new to wp development while installing. windows mobile sdk i am getting an error "This computer does not support windows phone emulator which requires the 64 bit edition of windows 8.1 pro and a computer that supports Hiper-V" as shown in the below screen shot....
I am using windows 8.1 pro 64 bit operating system and dual core second generation processor and 4 gb ram.
For Windows phone emulator installation should requires SLAT support for the machine
See the requirements for WP 8
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff626524(v=vs.105).aspx
Check whether your system has SLAT support using the below software
http://slatstatuscheck.codeplex.com/
If your machine is SLAT enabled make sure the Hyper-V settings in "Windows Features" as below:
It works only on the processor that has HYPER-V(Virtualization). All the intel i-series supports virtualization.
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this is the error I get when I try to launch the emulator:
I have windows 8.1 professional, and the emulator as its shown is compatible with w8.1, and I installed the suitable VS update.
As the message suggests, you probably don't have Hyper-V enabled. If your PC supports it (which it should if the CPU isn't very old), you'll probably have to enable it from your BIOS (look up your motherboard or laptop model number for the exact location of the option in the BIOS).
On the off chance that it's enabled there but disabled from Windows, type "Turn Windows features on or off" from your Windows search charm and see if the Hyper-V option is checked or not. If the option isn't there at all then it's probably disabled from the BIOS or not supported by your CPU.
Also make sure you are running the 64 bit version of Windows 8.1 Pro. From the error shown it sounds like you may have the 32 bit OS installed.
I would like to know if it is possible to install the windows phone 8 sdk one a workstation that has windows 7 OS?
Unfortunately, it looks like a no.
See Requirements here : WP8 SDK
•Supported Operating System
Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro
•Operating system type:
Windows 8 64-bit (x64) client versions
•Hardware:
6.5 GB of free hard disk space
4 GB RAM
64-bit (x64) CPU
•Windows Phone 8 Emulator:
Windows 8 Pro edition or greater
Requires a processor that supports Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
If your computer meets the hardware and operating system requirements, but does not meet the requirements for the Windows Phone 8 Emulator, the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 will install and run. However, the Windows Phone 8 Emulator will not function and you will not be able to deploy or test apps on the Windows Phone 8 Emulator.
On a side note, you can always run it on a VM that is Windows 8 :D
I want to install the Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator, but it doens't work because of the system requirements.
But I have a brand new laptop with Windows 8.1 Pro, 64 Bit, 8GB RAM and I have active Hyper-V + Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Update 3.
So I don't know what to do.
Can you help me?
You need to turn on Second Level Address Translation in your bios. Some laptop manufactures do not ship with this turned on. You processor must be an i3 i5 i7 from intel.
or
Rapid Virtualization Indexing Required is required if running an AMD processor
Lately i wanted to get into Windows Phone 8 development and i installed Visual Studio 2013 + Windows Phone SDK 8 + Visual Studio 2013 Latest update.
My system parameters are:
- 8gb ram
- Windows 8.1 64bit system
- Intel i5
The moment i try to run a Windows Phone project a dialog appears and it says:
Title - " Cant start the windows phone emulator"
Subtitle - "The Windows Phone Emulator requires Hyper-V.Your PC is missing the following pre-requisites required to run Hyper-V:
-Windows 8 Professional(64 bit)"
After i saw that i checked for how to upgrade Normal Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 Professional.
With no luck i tried to find out more about to install Hyper-V with the BIOS configuration with no luck as well.
Usually i develop on Android with Eclipse(with the Emulator) so i can't understand the reason why a emulator of Windows Phone can't run on my system.
P.S
I dont have Hyper-V feature in the Windows Feature list to Turn off/on
Thanks heads up for each answer! :)
The error is saying you need Windows 8.1 x64 Pro or Enterprise to be able to install Hyper-V. You can still develop phone apps in the edition of Windows 8.1 you have but you must debug on on a windows phone the emulator will not be available
System Control -> Programms and Functions -> "Activate or deactivate Windows Features" (in the left bar)
(freely translated from my german win8.1)
There you can activate Hyper-V if it is inside your Windows-version. Then try to restart VS2013 and start the emulator. I had to "deactivate" my Hyper-V and activate it again for some reason. Then it worked.
Good Luck! :)
The Windows Phone 8 emulator is a special Hyper-V image. It cannot run on other virtualization technology.
Without the emulator, the alternative option would be to use an actual device.
you can use a virtual machine to deploy windows phone 8 OS. Your System processor does not support hyper-v so, you can install win phone 8 on a virtual machine. you would found this link helpful.. check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANk_XaovqM
Step which i followed; ( I already have windows 8.1 64-bit machine )
Enabled 'Virtualization / Hardware assisted virtualization' in bios. [ https://www.google.co.in/search?q=enable+virtualization+in+bios&oq=enable+virtual&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.5117j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 ].
Hyper-V option came in 'windows features' after I did this step.
Later, I Became a member of Hyper-V admin group.
I'd like to test web sites in Mobile IE. I do not need or want Windows 8 loaded, just Windows Phone 8.
I understand I can run Windows Phone 8 Simulator inside a Windows 8 VM. That is not my question.
I understand Windows Phone 8 Simulator is an x86 build of Windows Phone 8. This should, theoretically, make it easier to launch on an x86 Mac within an x86 based virtualization environment.
Can I run Windows Phone 8 on Mac, directly?
Yes, the Windows Phone 8 Simulator / Windows Phone 8 Emulator can run directly in OS X. However the mouse cursor is not visible. Mouse works, but no cursor/circle to show where your pointer is, which makes the VM difficult to use. Windows Phone 8 Simulator does the same thing on Windows when launched in Hyper V Manager (rather than Visual Studio). This may change in future.
Keyboard support is fine.
I used VMware Fusion 6.01 / OS X Mavericks.
Get the Flash.vhd file from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Emulation\Images\Flash.vhd inside Windows 8, and copy it to OS X (I used VMware Fusions Sharing feature to set this up quickly)
Import the VM into VMware Fusion
Change the CPU and Memory setting to a minimum of 2 cores, 512 MB (Windows Phone 8's mimum requirement). Before I did this, Windows Phone 8 would pause at the boot screen.
Windows Phone 8 will launch.
Keyboard shortcuts are listed at MSDN. Remember to press Fn on your Mac for function keys.
As you don't want to run Windows 8, the response is no, you can't run the emulator directly from Mac OSX. Also the emulator is x64 so you need to have a Windows 8 Pro at least, with HyperV enabled and a CPU SLAT capable.
If you consider the unique option: run Windows 8, you need to verify your processor is SLAT compatible. you can made this going to this page. and searching for your CPU model, in the Advanced technologies section you need to look for Intel VTx and EPT support. If both are supported, you should be able to run windows phone 8 from a Windows 8 machine.