Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Don’t install WP7 in a virtual machine

Hopefully this can save someone some time. I spent a couple hours setting up a virtual machine and installing the Windows Phone 7 dev tools, only to find that the phone emulator won’t run in a virtual machine. It turns out that this is because the emulator is a virtual machine and you can’t run a virtual machine in a virtual machine.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:45:59 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [6]  |  Related posts:
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:11:15 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
If your readers are looking for a preview of what to expect for the install/create 1st app experience, I have story booked it over on my blog.

http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/268/Default.aspx

Thanks for the VM info! Keep'em coming!
PHenry
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:22:44 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I have just confirmed this in Sun VirtualBox. Does not seem to get past the loading screen.
SBoucher
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:09:00 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Ouch! I know many developers that do development inside a sandbox. This could make things a bit of a pain.
Matt
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:55:36 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I heard you can run it from a boot-to-VHD VM. I haven't confirmed this, however. Boot-to-VHD is the only way to go :-)
Michael Flanakin
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:53:32 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I think another reason it won't run in a VM is because it requires DirectX and I don't think VMs support DirectX.
Clint Chapman
Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:35:19 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
No problem in VMware. As always.
bob
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