Hello, i am having trouble installing the Windows 10 mobile emulator for Visual Studio 2015
First I got this message when I attemped to install the first time
(see screenshot 1)
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So I went to the bios menu and seen Hardware Virtulization was disabled (See Screenshot 2)
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I then enabled Hardware virtualization (See Screenshot 3)
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I then went back to install the Emulator again and then I got this message
(See Screenshot 4)
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So I then went to the website suggested on the first error message
How to enable Hyper-V for the emulator for Windows Phone 8
to find out what went wrong and it said to a SLAT Check. I download the software and I performed the check and the results were good.
(See Screenshot 5)
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It then said to perform the "Checking BIOS settings required by Hyper-V for Data Execution Prevention"
Went to the performance option and the message said my computer supports hardware based DEP. So I should be able to use Hyper V
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Next it said to perform "Enabling Hyper-V in Windows" and THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS.
Hyper V is not showing up in features
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So I searched on google to find solutions and came across a few websites to check more enabling options. One was to see if Hyper V is in System Information. It is and everyting is marked "yes"
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I Then went to a over everything again and found something on installing Hyper V and tried it and still not Showing up in Features.
Another article said see if Hyper V is in System Configuration and enable
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So I unticked one "Wallet Service" so I could "Enable All" and clicked enable all
restarted my computer. Still Hyper V on Features.
Another article said Try turning on Hyper V on from services, so I did that and got this error message saying "it stated the stopped"
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Still can't get Hyper V.
Here is the version of Windows 10 on my computer (Windows 10 Home)
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Now some sites say I have to have Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise. My response would be why would my computer have everything else in place with Hyper V and I would not be able to use it?
Simple: you have Windows 10 Home edition, it has no Hyper-V. Hyper-V is only available in Pro, Education and Enterprise editions. There's no way you can run Windows Phone emulators because the only way to run them is Hyper-V, which you don't have because of your chosen edition.
You can use Windows 10 Home edition to connect to Hyper-V virtual machines on Pro, Education and Enterprise editions, therefore even the Home edition has parts of Hyper-V to offer this so called Virtual Machine Connection to another Hyper-V server.
In screenshot, green highlight shows the parts of Hyper-V you have in Home edition. They allow you to to connect to so called Hyper-V servers (Windows 10 Pro, Education, Enterprise) and use virtual machines like for instance Windows Phone emulators installed on them over the network.
The parts required for a computer to act as Hyper-V server for virtual machines is highlighted red. That's the parts your Home edition is missing.
Kari
Thanks for clearing it up for me with a detailed answer
