(I have also used it successfully to run the Windows 10 preview.

Hyper-V and ESXi are examples of Hypervisors.īoot Camp itself is free and is included on your Mac. Hypervisors are a different type of virtualisation more commonly used on a server type box to run multiple server VMs.

Desktop Virtualisation solutions are VMware Fusion, Parallels, or Virtualbox.

In case you are unaware of the difference Boot Camp is not a virtualisation solution it is a way of running Windows operating systems directly on Mac hardware just as if it was a real PC. The same would apply for example to trying to run VMware ESXi, this also has to be installed and run directly and not inside a virtual environment. In your case Hyper-V would be running Windows 8 itself, and the Windows Phone 8 SDK emulator. You could then run multiple Windows 8 instances via Hyper-V via Boot Camp. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. You can use emulator to play the Computer Emulator games on your Windows PC, Mac, Android and iPhone. Hyper-V can then host its own VMs in this case the Windows Phone 8 SDK emulator. Mini VMac Rom/Emulator file, which is available for free download on. This will result in Hyper-V running directly on the Mac hardware i.e. If you want to use Hyper-V you will need to install it via Boot Camp. This is not supported and I believe most permutations of trying to run a VM inside a VM even if both are Windows would have the same problem. Disk image files are the same format as those used with popular software-based Mac emulators like Mini vMac. Do you need to open a dummy project all the time No, you can hack it so the emulator can run as a stand-alone. But the WP8 emulator seems only running within Visual Studio. The issue is that you are trying to run a VM inside a VM, that is you are trying to run Hyper-V inside a VM. OK, cool, but as a Mac-using web developer, you may not want to use Visual Studio as an IDE.

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