Run an Windows 8.1 Simulator on a Windows 10 PC

Question

Can I run the Windows 8.1 simulator on a Windows 10 machine? I need to test on Windows 8.1, but I'm no longer able to do it, since I upgraded to Windows 10 and installed the Windows 10 SDK and simulator.

Answer 1

No. The simulator isn't an emulator: It simulates resolution and input through a terminal server session connected back to the local host running the local OS.

The Windows Phone emulators are different. They are hyper-v images of the target mobile OS and so don't need to match the host OS.