complete windows app development on hyper-v virtual machine

Question

I am about to buy a Windows 8 enabled machine and I intend to write a windows mobile app. I don't have access to any windows 8 machine but I am really curious about one feature.

Can I use hyper-v virtual machine of windows 8.1 guest OS to emulate windows phones? I mean complete app development in virtual machine itself. I suspect that virtualization of hardware could be a problem like in windows 7 virtual machine on oracle VirtualBox.

I intend not to install visual studio on host OS, probably its the best way to keep it working for years. Windows OS is touchy.

Answer 1

It is possible, but not with Hyper-V. You have to use VMWare. VMWare supports nested virtualization. You disable Hyper-V in your host OS, install VMWare, enabled nested virtualization in VMWare and than you can install and enable Hyper-V (needed by the emulators) in the guest OS.