Windows Phone 8 emulator error - Something happened while creating a switch

Question

I have a similar problem like mentioned in this question:

Unable to create the virtual machine

But, my problem is a bit different in the error description:

Answer 1

It's already answered, but something easier worked for me (and without uninstalling VirtualBox):

"Go into Hyper V. Go into the Virtual Switch Manager. Create a virtual switch called 'Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch'. Make it's connection type Internal. Now launch the emulator. It should work."

I had to reboot the machine before running the emulator, but now everything's working fine: VS2012, Xde and VirtualBox.

Credits go to TheGeekNextDoor.

Answer 2

It seems that Xde is currently not compatible with Cisco VPN Client v5.x; with the VPN client installed, you indeed get this error. Uninstalling Cisco VPN Client resolves this.

Answer 3

I was able to fix this by removing VMWare Player and Virtual Box, and then performing a Repair install of the Windows Phone 8 SDK (Control Panel-> Uninstall -> Windows Phone 8 SDK -> Change -> Repair

Answer 4

This what helped me to solve the same issue: http://mobileworld.appamundi.com/blogs/petevickers/archive/2012/11/01/troubleshooting-windows-phone-8-emulator-problems.aspx

And no need to uninstall virtualbox even have it running at the same time

Hope this will help to someone

Answer 5

Had the same error message. After removing VirtualBox, everything works fine

Answer 6

I had some issues getting this going. In the end, by randomly disabling and enabling my network adapters, I was able to get the virtual switch working even for an external adapter.