Hi Greg, No, generally, you can’t run a VM that relies on the Hypervisor (WP8 Emulator) within a VM that relies on the Hypevisor (VMWare Player).
One way to dev against WP8 from inside a VM is to use a physical device. BTW, I don’t know about VMWare Player, but VMWare Fusion allows an advanced setting called “Enable hypervisor applications in this virtual machine” which (I think) puts aside a dedicated processor on a multi-proc machine for use inside the VM and doesn’t enable the Hypervisor for the Host VM on that proc. (I could have the mechanism wrong, but the upshot is that you can run the WP8 [and, I expect, the new Android Emulator] in a Win8 VM running on OSX). Cheers, Coatsy Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2014 9:41 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Phone development and Hyper-V I could never have imagined that Windows 8 phone development used Hyper-V for emulation. I spent hours installing a fresh VS2013 with all updates in Windows 8.1 VMWare Player, and after writing test a phone app which looks lovely in the designer, I'm unable to run it due to the exact problem described by this guy: http://celticcodingsolutions.com/Blog/post/2014/06/13/Error-running-Phone-Emulator-on-Windows-81-and-VS2013-in-VMWare-Workstation-8.aspx "One of the Hyper-V components is not running" Am I snookered or not? Can't I develop for Windows phone in a windows 8 VM? Searches on this problem produce nothing useful so far. Has anyone else overcome this problem? Greg K
