Can't install Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator

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So I have a HP laptop, and as many HP users know it's a nightmare to install Hyper-V on it. But I somehow managed. Hyper-V is running on my laptop and I have all the necessary hardware requirements:

  • SLAT is enabled
  • VT-x is supported and enabled
  • I'm running 64 bit Windows 8.1 Professional
  • I'm running Visual Studio 2013 Professional Update 3
  • Hardware D.E.P. is enabled and supported

And yet when I run the Phone Emulator installation I get the following display: Error I'm seeing

I can't figure out what's going on or why I keep getting the error. Hyper-V is running as shown:

Hyper-V is running

I've spent two days already trying to figure this out and searching on Google for a solution to this problem. Some of the things I've tried:

  • Flashing my BIOS
  • Resolving issues with the Realtek BlueTooth driver (this causes issues with Hyper-V)
  • Reseting my BIOS
  • Doing a clean install of my whole system
  • Installing all Windows Updates
  • Installing all Visual Studio updates
  • Enabled / Disabled D.E.P.

Any advice is appreciated. If you need the log from the emulator installation let me know and I'll post it here.

Thanks

UPDATE:

I've attempted to install winsows server standard 2012 and tried enababling hyper-v and installing visual studio and the phone emulator there, and that works and I'm able to run the emulators with no problem.

When I tried the same thing back after installing windows 8 again it installs hyper-v but fails to start windows after installing visual studio update 2 with the phone images etc. The only way I can boot back into windows is if I turn off virtualization in bios.

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visual-studio-2013windows-8.1windows-phone-8.1hyper-v
For what it's worth, that list of services is the same as mine. And I can run WP81 images. – Henk Holterman
that's nice and all but that doesn't solve the problem I'm having... but thanks for your input. – Toni Kostelac
Please upload the log file. – Decade Moon

1 Answers

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So it turns out that HP Pavilion laptops support all that is needed to run Hyper-V, however it looks as if HP is blocking the SLAT functionality from working properly with Hyper-V thus not allowing it to run correctly. This looks like it's blocked at the BIOS level.

Updating the BIOS doesn't solve the issue.

The way I came to this conclusion is that Windows Server running Hyper-V runs the Windows Phone emulator with no problems, and it's a Microsoft decision to not require SLAT when running Hyper-V on Windows Server while requiring it on Desktop version of Windows.

Seeing how I paid extra for a more powerful laptop to be able to use features like Hyper-V, and to have an experience such as this due to a manufacturer configuration has left a bitter taste in my mouth. Needless to say this is the LAST time I'll ever buy an HP laptop.