How to run BB10 simulator in Mac OS X

4
votes

After installing the simulator I am not able to follow the instructions found here. I installed BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha B Simulator. The page asks to run "BlackBerry10Simulator-BB10_ n_nn" but I cannot find any thing like that in my installation directory:

ls -1 BlackBerry10Simulator-BB10_0_10-261/
BlackBerry10Simulator-BB10_0_10.vmwarevm
bbm
controllers
install

I found "runBB10Simulator.sh" in the bbm directory but running it does not actually run a simulator, I am not sure what it does.

$ls -1 BlackBerry10Simulator-BB10_0_10-261/bbm
KeyNego.SIMULATOR.keystore
README.txt
Servers
bin
classpath
licenses
runBB10Simulator.sh
shutdown.sh

Can anyone help?

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blackberry-simulatorblackberry-10

3 Answers

3
votes

The simulator requires VMWare player, a free download.

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Cheers

EDIT: Mac OS requires http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html which is not free. Either bootcamp windows, install a linux distro or virtualize either to virtualize the emulator... (XZibit meme someone?) which is likely not going to work.

3
votes

MAC OS requires VMFusion 30 day trial for installing the BB 10 simulator.

1
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@russoue:- Once you install VMware Fusion Just open the **BlackBerry10Simulator-BB10_0_10.vmwarevm** with VMware Fusion and you are done. it will take some 5 min to load simulator.