Why Windows Phone 8 emulator does not run in Windows 8.1?

Question

I have downloaded Windows Phone sdk and but it gave me an error about Hyper-V and asked me to restart. I restarted the computer and start a new windows phone 8 project and when I debug it gave me this error.

Can't start Windows Phone Emulator

The Windows Phone Emulator requires Hyper-V. Your PC is missing the following pre-requisites required to run Hyper-V - Windows 8 Professional (64 bit)

Is there any way I could get this work?

Answer 1

The system requirements documentation for the windows Phone 8 emulator states that you need a 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro edition or higher. I suspect you do not have a Pro edition.

You can still develop apps for Windows Phone 8 on a non-Pro edition, but you can't use the emulator - you have to debug on a registered Windows Phone 8 phone.

Answer 2

只需执行一个简单的任务，转到此路径 控制面板 --> 程序和功能 --> 打开或关闭 Windows 功能 --> 确保已检查 Hyper-V 现在重新启动计算机

Answer 3

To allow Hyper-V (assuming you have a windows 8.1 Pro or windows 10 pro)

Go to cmd, run it as admin and tape the following :

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

To turn it off (Because you will quickly get into some problems while not debugging)

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off