We therefore need to bypass this check by manually adding the option in the VM configuration file. To check whether it is enabled on your Windows 8 instance, open the Windows Features settings:īecause the Emulator requires hardware Hyper-V support, Hyper-V will check whether it is running in a virtualised instance or not. Hyper-V is a virtualization platform to create and run virtual machines. The Windows Phone Emulator runs as a virtual machine on Hyper-V.

Hopefully you should now be able to run the Windows Phone Emulator in VMware Fusion. Open this file in TextEdit and add this line at the end: Once the content (list of files and folders) is displayed, find the VMware virtual machine configuration file - the file with the. In the Finder window, right-click and Show Package Contents.Ħ. Go back to the VMs list and right-click on the VM and select Show in Finder.ĥ. This will add vhv.enable = 'TRUE' in the VM configuration file (more on that below).Ĥ. Tick the Enable hypervisor applications in this virtual machine checkbox to enable nested virtualization. Select the VM in the list and go to Settings > Processors & Memory > Advanced Options Stop the virtual machine that you are running the emulator on.ģ. The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to create the virtual machine: Generic failure under VMware Fusion 5.0ġ. If you run Windows 8 on your Mac with VMware Fusion 5.0, you might get the following error message when starting the Windows Phone emulator for the first time: By Pascal Arnould Software Engineer III 21st June 2013

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