Do not see Windows Phone 8 Emulator from Visual Studio 2012 express for Windows Phone 8

Question

After installing Visual Studio 2012 express for Windows Phone 8 on my machine along with the SDK I notice that I do not have the option to Debug to a Windows Phone 8 Emulator ?

Any specific workaround or fixes to resolve this would be helpful?

Answer 1

My Bad, the PC I am using does not support Hardware Virtualization.

I installed multiple times and finally noticed this message at Launch time.

This Computer does not support hardware virtualization, which means Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 can't run on this PC.

Answer 2

If others run into this, here is what I found out.

My Intel Core 2 Duo T9550, don't support SLAT, which is needed to enable Hyper-V, which is again needed to run the WP8 emulator...sigh...

You can run this Coreinfo tool to see what your CPU supports. Follow the guidance here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff626524(v=vs.105).aspx#system

The Windows Phone 7.1 SDK emulator works fine on my machine btw.

Answer 3

The Windows Phone 8 Emulator runs in Hyper-V. Hyper-V requires a processor that supports SLAT (Second Level Address Translation).

List of SLALT (EPT) Intel CPUs: http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology

So any Core2Duo does not Support Hyper-V :/

Here is a tool to test your CPU: http://slatstatuscheck.codeplex.com/