There should now be a Windows Phone Emulator program under your Start Menu (depending on what you have previously installed, you may be prompted to restart several times). Launch the installation wizard, click Install, and then wait. You don't need the release notes, just vm_web2.exe

If you are using trying to emulate windows whle emulating windows phone, you will need to use VM Ware Fusion, and enable Hyper-V, and assign atleast 3GBs of RAM.įrom your Windows PC, download the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.

DirectX 10 or above capable graphics card with a WDDM 1.1 driver.

4 GB of free disk space on the system drive.

Windows 7/8 (all editions except Starter Edition), Windows Vista (with Service Pack 2 – all editions except Starter Edition).

If you just want to check something really quickly, you can use a browser based service like BrowserStack, or manymo Windows Phone 7 Requirements Installation insturations are provided for OS X, Windows, and Linux Intel provides HAXM to accelerate QEMU, and the android emulator. If the option is disabeled from your start menu, hit Cancel, then Edit the AVD and enable Snapshot under Emulation OptionsĪndroid emulators are natoriously sllooowwwwwww, due to the fact that it is based on QEMU ( which virutalizes the entire machine) and runs dalvik (android own VM). This will greatly reduce the future relaunches of that AVD. Finally, just select an AVD from the list on the main tab, and hit Start Make sure you check off Launch from Snapshot.You can always manually create a device from the main tab by clicking New and filling out the information You can quickly create a new device by clicking on the Device Definition tab, selecting a device that represents the settings you are looking for, and clicking Create AVD.Setup homebrew, if you haven't already and run (If you do choose to install the package from the site, I recommend getting the one under USE AN EXISTING IDE, unless you actually want Eclipse for some ungodly reason.) OS X You can grab the SDK from the offical site, however I prefer to use system downloading utilities. 64-bit distributions must be capable of running 32-bit applications.GNU C Library (glibc) 2.7 or later is required.Linux (tested on Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx, minimum of 8.04 is required.).If you need older versions of iOS, you can use a browser based service like BrowserStack, or copy over old SDK's to your XCode folder. Alias ios= 'open '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/atform/Developer/Applications/iPhone Simulator.app' 'Īnd now your can open the simulator by running ios in your terminal

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