Windows Phone 8 Emulator on non-SLAT Machines

Question

Though this topic present over different forums with different confusing discussion but I couldn’t find any instance of it present over here at StackOverflow and it could be

Answer 1

I've waited several weeks before answering here because I didn't want to be wrong but the answer is YES and NO. You cannot run it on non-slat machines. But you can make your machine a SLAT-enabled machine.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but SLAT capability can exist as a physical or a virtual feature. If your machine isn't a iX (i3, i5, i7) or is an AMD, then you probably don't have SLAT as a physical feature.

However, if you have Windows Server 2012, either at work or in your BizSpark account download list, then chances are that you can run Windows Phone 8 SDK on your machine.

I confirm I've been running WP8 SDK during the last months on an AMD in Windows 8 after installing it inside a Windows Server 2012 VM. I can run the emulator with the three form factors to debug. They can take up to 2-3 minutes to open but once open, everything run smoothly.

Obviously, that's a plaster until you get a good PC since you don't get optimal performances. But you can work "almost" normally. At least enough to code stuff and submit it to the market store. I've updated both VMWare and WS2012 and disabled useless devices and ACPI.