Windows Phone 7 emulator on a VM?

Question

It seems that the Windows Phone 7 SDK doesn\'t support running inside a VM. On Parallels, the entire VM simply crashes when the emulator is starting up.

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Answer 1

We have successfully deployed, and performance is acceptable in our environment, virtual Windows 8.1 Pro Desktop under VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi 5.5), and have the Windows 8 SDK and Emulator working correctly with no performance issues. (In Education - to University Labs for Windows Phone development).

The issue experienced by most, is you most have the Hypervisor pass through the Intel-VT into the VM, to effecticely create Nested Hypervisors. This is possible using VMware vSphere 5.5.

This option is available in virtual machine version 10, enabled in the vSphere Web Client - Enable Hardware Virtualisation.