Unable to create the virtual machine

Question

I was so happy today that I have been finally able to install Windows Phone 8 SDK and try it a bit. I installed fresh new installation of Windows 8 Pro into my virtual machi

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue and I fixed it by enabling Hypervisor applications in this virtual machine and adding the following line to the .vmx file:

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"

This got the emulator working just fine. I found this answer here.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Under Parallels Desktop 8 follow this guide: http://kb.parallels.com/en/115211

Answer 3

Solved the problem by uninstalling an older VPN client from the machine. It turns out some VPN clients might have compatibility issues with Windows 8. After uninstalling VPN client I was able to run the emulator without issues (of course after making sure Hyper-V was installed and enabled on the machine)

Answer 4

Actually, it works quite nicely with VMware Fusion 5.0.1

All I had to do is to add to the .vmx file of the virtual machine the following lines:

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = “FALSE” vhv.enable = "true"

Save and restart VMWARE (obviously the VM must be stopped before the changes are made)

I'm right now debugging a test app from VS2012 using the emaulator inside a VM in my Macbook

I'm a happy camper

:-)

Answer 5

Edit: Oh, I didn't noticed that you are trying to run emulator on VM. My answer is for non-VM environment.

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First of all, you need to check hardware requirement at here

Be careful, successful installation of SDK does not guarantee "your hardware is compatible" If your hardware is compatible and Hyper-V is running(described in the link above), please check your BIOS and be sure to enable hardware virtualization in CPU Configuration

(for me, I could find it at Booting > BIOS > Advanced > Advanced > CPU Configuration)

Brief summary:

• 64bit CPU and OS
• 4GB RAM
• Hardware-assisted virtualization supported CPU
• Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) supported hardware
• Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP) supported hardware
• Proper BIOS settings

Answer 6

I posted the same question on Parallels forum.

Reply:

The emulator is actually a virtual machine, so we are talking about a vm inside a vm, this requires support for nested Hyper-V, which afaik is planned but not implemented yet, also VMWare Fusion already supports this, if you are so desperate.

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See Parallels forum post: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=646448#post646448