Run windows phone emulator 8 or 8.1 without using Hyper-v

Question

As you know , for running wp8.X emulator , hyper-v is necessary and this feature is on windows 8.X pro version . so now i have windows 8.1 standard . i wanna know is there any solution for that , without buying windows 8.X pro version . for example is it possible to use virtualbox instead of using hyper-v or ... ???

Thanks

Solution 1

The Windows Phone 8 emulator is a special Hyper-V image.

you can use a virtual machine to deploy windows phone 8 OS. My laptop processor does not support hyper-v so, I've installed win phone 8 on a virtual machine. I found this link helpful.. check it out: How to use Windows Phone 8 Emulator without Hyper-V

Solution 2

If you want to develop apps without using a pro version of windows and Hyper-V you can deploy your apps to a physical device.

Comments

[Romasz]

possible duplicate of Anyways of running app without requiring windows 8 Pro version

[peyman gilmour]

Thank you . but if you are wp developer and you want to test your windows phone application , what do you do ?

[David]

That YouTube video link is gone/down now :(