Error While Installing Hyper-V emulator for Visual Studio

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I have Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on Win 10 64 bit OS.

Have downloaded and tried installing Visual Studio Emulator for Android but failing with following exception.

[1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]e000: MUX: ERROR: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities.Internal.Net35, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

[1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]e000: MUX: Stack: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.TelemetrySessionInitializer.BuildInitializer(TelemetrySessionSettings telemetrySessionSettings) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.TelemetryService.get_DefaultSession() at Microsoft.Devdiv.Bootstrapper.UserFeedback.Metrics.AppInsightsStartSession(BundleInformation bundle) at Microsoft.Devdiv.Bootstrapper.UserFeedback.Metrics.Initialize(Boolean IsBackFromReboot, BundleInformation bundle, ICommand command, CommandLineArgumentsStore commandLine) [1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Ux Initialized [1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Aquiring mutex 'Global\vsemu' with a timeout of 0 ms [1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Mutex 'Global\vsemu' ownership: True [1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Seen existing cache mutex 'Global\vsemu CacheMutex': False [1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Aquiring mutex 'Global\vsemu CacheMutex' with a timeout of 60000 ms [1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Mutex 'Global\vsemu CacheMutex' ownership: True [1450:1EC8][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i100: Detect begin, 15 packages [1450:1814][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Wait for Detect to complete [1450:1EC8][2016-10-01T21:56:43]i000: MUX: Detection Phase

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Does your machine fall under the minimum requirements for the Visual Studio Android Emulator? msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt228280.aspx#Anchor_0 Ideally this is an issue with a partial VS installation. Try to also repair VS. It seems it's missing an internal VS utility. – Jon Douglas
or are you running windows in emulation or inside a VM? Then hyperV is being used to run windows. – JLamkin
Download this and see what happens: nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities and use depends.exe to find out what is missing. – Dexion

2 Answers

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Simsons, you said you're "Looking for an answer drawing from credible and/or official sources."

I've read here an answer that says:

First check if Hyper-V is enabled on your machine in "Turn Windows features on or off". You may also need to enable the settings for this in your BIOS (VT-x and SLAT).

Installing the Windows 10 tools separately may be faster than re-running the full installer, https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/install-dev-tools-visual-studio-2015

Use the "If you've already installed Visual Studio 2015 RC" option to "Add the tools", this will offer the option to add the visual studio emulator for android during setup.

EDIT:

Further to this, it seems that it's not possible to enable Hyper-V on my iMac 27" Late 2013 on Insider Preview Build 10074 as VT-x becomes disabled every time the machine reboots after selecting to install Hyper-V from "Turn Windows features on or off". This causes the installation to rollback after the reboot, very frustrating!

EDIT:

This problem occurred after doing a machine refresh, however doing a full reset from the recovery options seems to have fixed the issue and have now successfully installed Hyper-V.

In this case I have not installed any of the Bootcamp software, I initiated the Hyper-V install as soon as the machine booted into the desktop environment.

Visual Studio Community 2015 RC is currently installing, I will report back if this is also successful

EDIT: SUCCESS!

It is an old answer to a similar question.

I hope it helps.

Juan

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have you an Error 0x80070666 in your log or Exception.

Like:

[2848:136C][2016-09-21T18:22:28]e000: Error 0x80070666: Process returned error: 0x666
[2848:136C][2016-09-21T18:22:28]e000: Error 0x80070666: Failed to execute EXE package.
[25D4:2DB4][2016-09-21T18:22:28]e000: Error 0x80070666: Failed to configure per-machine EXE package.

If yes, you have a Problem with Visual C++ redistributable 2015.

remove Visual C++ redistributable 2015 (both) , repair your VS. Try to install the Visual Studio Android Emulator again .