Can I run the Windows 8.1 simulator on a Windows 10 machine? I need to test on Windows 8.1, but I'm no longer able to do it, since I upgraded to Windows 10 and installed the Windows 10 SDK and simulator.
No. The simulator isn't an emulator: It simulates resolution and input through a terminal server session connected back to the local host running the local OS.
The Windows Phone emulators are different. They are hyper-v images of the target mobile OS and so don't need to match the host OS.
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I am running a windows 8 (64bit basic) machine , since hyper v is not available for win 8 , i tired to install win 8.1 basic (64bit) in virtual box to start windows phone 8 development.
As first step i enabled Intel Virtualization in the BIOS screen and tried to look for hyper v feature in VM's features , but could not able to find it.
So tried to run intel tool in the Host(win 8) and VM(win 8.1)
The result for the host machine :
The result for the VM :
Additionally , i also tried to run coreinfo.exe -v tool on command promt
The result for the host machine :
The result for the VM :
I would be thankful , if anyone help me to enable hyper v on my VM
Please also clarify , is it possible enable hyper-v (on my host machine) if i upgrade my main host machine from win 8 basic to win 8.1 basic ?
No. Hyper-V is a Windows 8.1 Pro feature. It is not available on Windows 8.1 Basic. You will need Windows 8.1 Pro to run Hyper-V
See Compare Windows 8.1 Editions
You do not need Hyper-V to develop Windows Phone apps. You can use Windows 8.1 Basic and Visual Studio 2013. Without Hyper-V you cannot run the emulator, but you can test on a physical device.
You cannot use Windows 8.0 Basic to develop Windows Phone apps. You'll need Windows 8.0 Pro (to develop Windows Phone 8 apps only, with Visual Studio 2012) or an Windows 8.1 (to develop Windows Phone 8 or 8.1 apps with Visual Studio 2013).
See Getting started with developing for Windows Phone 8 for Windows 8 requirements and Visual Studio Community 2013 for Windows 8.1 requirements.
My PC OS is Windows 7.
I have installed VM Ware
I have installed Windows 8 Standard in VM Ware
I am trying to create a Windows Phone 8 app.
I want to use the PCs internet connection rather than the GPRS on my mobile.
I have recently found out I need to run the phone emulators to do this.
But, the emulators do not work because I am launching under VM Ware.
Is there a work-around?
Also running Emulator(VM) within a VM is not supported.
Ok so I got windows 8.1 nextbook to test on. I created some basic browser app in visual studio running on virtual windows server 2012 r2. My main machine is windows 7. When I connect with USB cable nothing happens (who could have predicted that). I thought I could deploy my app on tablet and do a debug like that but haven't find a way to do it. Anybody here with experience in this scenario, I googled everywhere and the only thing I found is that documentation sucks
You cannot run a Windows Phone app on Windows. You need a Windows Phone or a Windows Phone emulator to run the Windows Phone app. To run on Windows you need to write a Windows Store app. Windows 8.1 on a tablet is the same as Windows 8.1 on a desktop or laptop computer.
In your case you'll probably need a physical Windows Phone since you are already running virtualized. The Windows Phone emulator is a Hyper-V image and is not supported nested in a Hyper-V guest OS.
If you write a Windows Universal app then the code will be mostly the same for the Windows and Windows Phone targets (the UI layer is usually different), so you can write and test the bulk of the app as a Windows Store app to run on your tablet and then recompile for Windows Phone.
Is it possible to run Windows Phone 8 emulator on Windows 8.1 standard edition (not 8.1 Pro)?
I know that normally the emulator requires Hyper-V which is not available in non-Pro version but since Windows Phone 7 emulator works fine without Hyper-V maybe there is a way to run 8's emulator without Hyper-V as well?
I have windows 8 pre-installed in my machine. WP8 emulator requires HYPER-V to be enabled in OS but current version of my OS doesn't support HYPER-V feature , but my hardware supports virtualization (I run VMWare on this machine). So my questions are -
Is there any way/hack to run emulator on win8 OS?
How do I upgrade from current OS to windows 8 Pro(I don't have
product key as OS was preinstalled in machine)
*WP8 - Windows Phone 8
If you want Hyper-V, you'll need to upgrade to Windows 8(.1) Pro. There's a built-in feature to do that. In Windows 8.1 just search for more features in Windows settings (Win+W) and click on the only hit. Here is a more detailed guide for Windows 8.