What does it take to run the Windows Phone 8 emulator?

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Solution 1

You need Windows 8 x64 Pro or Enterprise, Visual Studio 2012 (or the express edition from the SDK) and CPU supporting SLAT for running Hyper-V - WP8 emulators are running as Hyper-V virtual machines.
(In other words no Linux, or Macs with processors older than the Intel Core i3, i5 or i7, no other edition of Windows, no Visual Studio 2010 or older, no x86 version of Windows, no Core2Duo and older CPUs, etc.)
Edit: You can use Macs for developing for WP8, but only if you install Windows 8 on it.
https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk

Solution 2

There are two interesting solutions on the Nokia Developer wiki:

Seems like the first option might be viable for you.

These two approaches also require a processor which supports hardware virtualization.

Solution 3

Be sure to get a windows 8 PRo 64 bit operating system.

I bought a sony VAIO laptop recently and It came preloaded with windows 8 basic OS.

It costs me around 75$ for windows 8 to windows 8 pro upgrade.....

Windows 8 pro is required for running the windows phone emulator as the emulator uses Microsoft's Hyper V virtualization.

Solution 4

Intel calls their SLAT technology EPT (Extended Page Table).

Here is a list of EPT enabled CPUs http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology

You can also use Sysinternals Coreinfo to check your CPU: coreinfo.exe -v

The console output should be: EPT * Supports Intel extended page tables (SLAT)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc835722

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Earlz almost 2 years

With the release of Windows Phone 8 finally out there, we finally have access to the SDK. I've heard that it requires special hardware or something for the emulator though. What are the system requirements for the phone emulator?
Earlz over 11 years

See also this question for information about running it inside of a virtual machine(nested)... Ah just now realized that's YOUR question. Leaving this comment here for future reference though
sheldonhull over 11 years

I just installed and got the same error. I have a Core 2 Duo Wolfdale, running fast and fine... no issues, except for this. Humbug. Forced Obsolescence shows its ugly head.
onmyway133 over 11 years

@MartinSuchan so how to know if my computer supports SLAT ?
Martin Suchan over 11 years

Here's the answer about SLAT: blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2012/11/06/…
Joe Healy over 11 years

@martin - awesome msdn article link <grin/>. Here's another that kind of shows you what's going on under the hood with the emulator as well. blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2012/11/27/…
ericosg over 11 years

Why not Core 2 Duo? Runs fine on my laptop with P7570, so it's not all Core 2 Duos out there. ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology
ericosg over 11 years

And I do not have SLAT/EPT support. (hence the link previously also tested with coreinfo).
Andrei Rînea about 11 years

Thanks for the link at the Intel site but for my precise CPU (Q8300) it says "See SPEC details" which leads to nothing... Any ideas? :( Thx..