Unable to Launch Windows Phone Emulator

Question

I am trying to run unit tests on our CI server. When i run the following command it tries to launch emulator but fails with the following message

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Answer 1

Add these two lines to the end of the vmx-file:

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE" mce.enable = "TRUE"

Answer 2

Just open Hyper-V manager and delete all connections. Then try again. This solution worked on my PC.

Answer 3

I had a situation where I had installed an azure component which preceded the current Visual Studio quarterly update and caused the emulator to die.

I recommend that you re-install/fix the current Visual Studio Update. Reboot and try again.

Answer 4

Right Click on Computer --> Click Properties --> On Left Look for "Advanced System Properties" and Click on it Click "Advanced" tab --> Click the "Performance Setting" Button --> Click "Advanced" Tab --> In the "Virtual Memory" section Click "Change .." --> Unchecked Automatically manage paging file size for all drives --> Click Radio Custom size --> Set the values manually - Minimum [4096], Maximum [8192]

Answer 5

Select the Emulator VM you are going to use in Windows 8 Phone development (default one is “Emulator WVGA 512MB”). Go to the Hyper-V VM settings and change the number of processors from 2 to 1. Press Apply and than OK in order to apply new settings.

If on a Mac or virtual machine ..

Or try to see the other solutions in this link:

Running Windows 8 Phone emulator in the Windows 8 virtual machine Problem

I really hope this link link can help you a less ;-)