Run Windows Phone 8 emulator on VMware

Rabu, 5 Jun 2013, 4:20 pm0

This setup is using VMware Player 5.0.2

1. Download Windows 8 pro 64-bit iso image with activator from http://tknowmore.blogspot.com/2013/05/windows-8-pro-x64-iso-direct-download-with-activator.html
   
2. Install Windows 8. This should be straightforward since VMware Player 5 supports Windows 8.
3. Install Windows Phone 8 SDK from http://developer.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk
4. Edit VMware *.vmx config file. This will add configuration to avoid guest OS from realizing it is running on virtual machine.

   hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"

   

5. Enable virtualization emulation. In virtual machine settings,  go to ‘Hardware’ tab > Processors > Virtualization Engine. Then, select “Virtualize Intel VT-X/EPT or AMD-V/RVI”
   
6. Open Visual Studio, create a new project & run on emulator
   

Some notes:

• emulator should be able to run
• however, performance will be slow