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Why Windows Phone 8 emulator does not run in Windows 8.1?


I have downloaded Windows Phone sdk and but it gave me an error about Hyper-V and asked me to restart. I restarted the computer and start a new windows phone 8 project and when I debug it gave me this error.

Can't start Windows Phone Emulator

The Windows Phone Emulator requires Hyper-V. Your PC is missing the following pre-requisites required to run Hyper-V - Windows 8 Professional (64 bit)

Is there any way I could get this work?


Solution

  • The system requirements documentation for the windows Phone 8 emulator states that you need a 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro edition or higher. I suspect you do not have a Pro edition.

    You can still develop apps for Windows Phone 8 on a non-Pro edition, but you can't use the emulator - you have to debug on a registered Windows Phone 8 phone.