Lower SDK emulator's CPU requirementsĪs mentioned above the emulator image is configured with multicore support so it does expect that Windows has at least two CPU cores available. Once the driver installation completed you can run the SDK tools to developer unlock the device and then start deploying apps to it. Phone and you will see the appropriate drivers being installed by the OS. Only one of these OSs can access the USB port so when connecting the Windows Phone to your Mac expect to see a prompt asking which OS should gain control over the new device. Note that you have now Windows running as a guest OS hosted by OS X.

You can now create your first Windows Phone 8 project and have it running in the emulator or on your Windows Phone 8 device. Follow the installation flow and restart the virtual machine when required. If you have an internet connection you can use the online installer. If you have already downloaded the offline installer (ISO file) make sure to transfer it inside the Windows VM image and open it from there (you can map the *.iso as a drive and then run the setup utility). You are now ready to install the Windows Phone 8 SDK. You can experiment with the two options and see which works best on your machine, we recommend the first approach if your machine is powerful enough.Ī reboot will likely be required in order to compete the installation of this feature. Install Windows on a machine with just 1 CPU and later edit emulator VM's settings to lower its CPU setting. We haveĬhange VM's configuration to allow Windows to see two (or more) CPU cores However by default Parallels makes only once CPU core available to Windows, invoking stability concerns. The Windows Phone Emulator's Windows Phone 8 images come configured for multicore devices, so they expect to have two CPU cores available to them. For the settings to be accessible simply stop the running VM then restart it after the settings have been changed. If you have neglected to enabled VM customization at install time, or if you want to experiment with other combination of options, you can edit the setting below, and many more which are not directly relevant for this subject, using Parallels' Virtual machine

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