Setting up Windows Phone 8 environment in VMWare

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1 Setting up Windows Phone 8 environment in VMWare Pre Requisites Windows Phone 8 SDK is only supported with 64-bit Windows 8 Pro or higher. VMware player or workstation 9. ( The Hypervisor is not supported by older versions) Required Files: File Name Windows phone 8 SDK Coreinfo Source US/library/windowsphone/develop/jj863509(v=vs.105).aspx Hardware Requirements Minimum of 2 GBs RAM is required to run windows 8 while recommended RAM is 4 GBs Minimum of 80 GBs HDD space should be allotted to VM. Machine s BIOS must support the following requirements and must be enabled for, o Hardware-assisted virtualization o Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) o Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP) A tool named Coreinfo by Microsoft is available to check the above mentioned hardware requirements, and the BIOS setting for virtulization & SLAT.

2 Setting up VMWare image for Windows 8 Download and Install VM Player 5 or above. Creating VM for windows 8 Open VM Player and click on Add new Virtual Machine with Windows 8 Pro operating system selected under Version. Set Virtual machine Name, the installation location and Disk size as per your requirement.

3 Click on Finish. Configuring Processor and enabling VM running into VM Change the value of Number of Processor cores to 2 Check the Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-v/RVI checkbox as shown below

4 Change VMX configuration file WQindows phone 8 emulator is a virtual machine inside hyper-v so by running an emulator in vmware image, one is running a virtual machine inside the Virtual Machine on windows 8 pro Once the VM image is created, Open.vmx file and add the following line into it. hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = FALSE This will allow to run a VM inside another VM. It, ultimately, tells the VMWare not to report to the virtual machine that it's running inside another VM. Install SDK tools and visual studio express 2012 for windows phone Download WPexpress_full.exe from URL mentioned in the prerequisite list. Running the setup will download packages and required files from the server. Enabling hyper-v Go to Control panel, click Programs, and then click on Turn Windows features on or off. In the Windows Features dialog box, Expand Hyper-V. The list of options expands. In the expanded list of options, select the Hyper-V Platform check box as shown below, and click OK. The virtual machine is now ready to develop Windows phone 8 applications.

5 How to run windows phone 8 emulator from hyper-v To run windows emulator, one need to create virtual switch and virtual machine. Open Hyper-v (as administrator), as Hyper-v will be installed with SDK inside the machine. Create Virtual Switch Open the Virtual Switch Manager Select New virtual network switch under Virtual Switches and Click on Create Virtual Switch of External type.

6 Add switch name. The new switch should appear within Virtual Switches area.

7 Click yes and new virtual switch will be created.

8 Create Virtual Machine using Wizard Click on new virtual machine and create new VM by following the below steps Add a Name to virtual machine.

9 Change Memory size to 512MB Select virtual switch created previously In this case New Virtual Switch Select the phone image from the SDK directory

10 In this case, C:\Program Files (x86)\microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Emulation\Images There are multiple images with different resolution, select as per your requirement. In this case, Flash.480*800 is selected.

11 Now you can see the new VM in the list. Select your VM and start emulator as shown below

12 Click on Start button to start windows phone 8 emulator.