If you get this error message and fail to launch the emulator, Launch emulator from Visual Studio Express You get a bunch of stuff here – XAML template, visual editor etc, etc. If you are reading my blog, you are very likely to be a web developer, so pick Windows Phone HTML5 App may be good! (but it does not really matter for now, because the ultimate purpose here is launching an emulator!)

Once you get the dialog, pick a project type. Now you should have Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone installed, so launch it! Notes: if you are ever asked to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete on Windows on VMWare, and if you’re on MBP like I am, press Fn-Ctrl-Option-Delete combo. Once you’re done with the initial setups, open Internet Explorer and go to Microsoft Download Center, then download and install Windows Phone SDK 8.0 on your Windows 8. Now, you are going to need to set up your Windows 8. Open the file with a text editor of your choice. vmwarevm extension depending on your Mac setting.Ĭtrl-click and select Show Package Contents. Then find your virtual machine, probably under yourname/Documents/Virtual Machines/. Now, before launching Windows 8, you need to tweak some Virtual Machine configuration. If you’re on VMWare Fusion 4.x like I do, follow the next step.Ĭlick Show All from top left to go back to the Setting menu, then click Advanced.įor Preferred Virtualization Engine, choose Intel VT-x with EPT. Note: If you’re on VMWare Fusion 5, select Preferred virtualization engine: Intel VT-x with EPT option at the Advanced setting below the memory setting, and skip the next step.

You should see the Setting dialog now.įirst, let’s click the Processors & Memory.Ĭonfugure the CPU by choosing 2 Processor Cores from the first pull-down menu. Go back to Finder, where you have downloaded Windows 8 iso, grab the iso icon and drag it into the dialog.Ĭlick Customize Settings before finishing. Launch VMWare Fusion, and go to menu, File > New. You should be able to download the 90 days evaluation for developers from Microsoft MSDN. You need to download Windows 8 64 bits ISO. and VMWare Fusion 4.1.4, not the latest.) Install VMWareįirst of all, Windows Phone 8 SDK is not available for Mac, so you need to create a virtual machine and install Windows 8 on your Mac. (Notes: I am still on OS 10.7.5, on 2.4 GHz Intel Core MacBook Pro, with 8GB memory. I once gave up, but after spending some time searching and asking my coworkers around, I finally make Windows Phone 8 emulator runnable on my MacBook Pro, so before I totally forget how I did, I decide to blog and share it with you. It appears to be that many Mac users, including myself, has had some trouble setting up Windows Phone SDK and run an WP emulator.

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