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windows phone 8 Emulator Invalid pointer Error

The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to create virtual machine:

Couldn't change Processor of the virtual machine: 'Emulator WVGA 512.User' failed to modify device 'Processor'. (virtual machine ID XXX)

Cannot assign the specified number of processor for virtual machine 'Emulator WVGA 512.user' is out of range. The range is 1 through 1 ( virtual machine ID XXX)

I got this message when running the Emulator

I am using my Windows 8 on mac os with Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac

I did nested virtual machine ,, I did enable the hypervisor but it does solve the problem..

Any suggestions ??

Thanks

Solution

  • The solution to my problem was to change the CPU number from 1 to 2.

    1. Shut down Windows 8 on Parallels Desktop 8.

    2. From Parallels > Configure menu > General tab > CPU : 2