I am attempting to launch the windows phone 8 SDK emulator on my Mac so that i can do simple web testing of mobile websites i build.
I have followed several guides and they all say the same thing.
Such as:
6. Once the content (list of files and folders) is displayed, find the VMware virtual machine configuration file – the file with the .vmx extension.
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = “FALSE”
And this guide proved to be quite useful to get it setup:
http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Windows_Phone_8_SDK_on_a_Virtual_Machine_with_Working_Emulator
I was able to get Hyper-V support enabled and I have even managed to open the Windows Phone 8 Emulator directly from the Hyper-V Manager. But in this state it is missing the chroming, the buttons, and when the mouse goes across the screen it disappears. The solution to this is said to be launching the emulator directly from Visual Studio.
My problem is when ever i try to launch the emulator from Visual Studio it creates a new image and then goes into a boot look where it keeps crashing and restarting over and over again.
When viewing the Hyper-V event logs i see this error:
'WP8SDK720P' has encountered a fatal error. The guest operating system reported that it failed with the following error codes: ErrorCode0: 0xC000021A, ErrorCode1: 0x88EB9150, ErrorCode2: 0x0, ErrorCode3: 0xC0000022, ErrorCode4: 0xD203BC. If the problem persists, contact Product Support for the guest operating system. (Virtual machine ID 50607D9A-6E23-4369-9D89-2730614219BA)
How can i get past this error?
In the end I found a solution, I managed to launch the original Windows Phone VM image directly from the commandline with this command:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\8.0\XDE.exe" /vhd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Emulation\Images\Flash.vhd" /name WP8SDK720P
I created a new text file with notepad and put this command in it and saved the file on my desktop as a .bat file. This way i can just double click the shortcut and launch the sim.
Hopefully this helps someone else out there. In this way, you don't even need to start visual studio to run the emulator, it makes it much simpler if all you are using the emulator for is testing web-apps.
N.B. if you press FN+DOWN-ARROW you can enable the keyboard to work in the sim.
Follow these steps and see if it might help you to fix the problem.
Step 1: Shut down the Guest operating system (Windows 8 in this case).
Step 2: Open the settings for the VM and select Processors. Look at the left pane and see if you have CHECKED the option "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI" under the Virtualization engine section.
Step 3: Open the configuration file (Windows 8 x64.vmx) for the VM and check if you had added the following line of command (hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE") to it as shown in the screen shot. You will generally find the file at the location where the virtual hard disk is placed.
If every thing is right, check to see if you had installed Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 (if you are using Visual Studio 2012 as your IDE).
Hope this helps to fix the issue. If you need more information on how to create a VM for developing windows phone 8 apps, there is a great article on nokia developer forum. You can find it here
Happy Coding!!
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I have been trying for days to get a simple app any app made in livecode to display either on my tablet, smartphone or emulator. It just doesn't work. Here is what I have done:
I have installed my sdk and pointed livecode to it in preferences.
Picked 2.3 as my version
Check my google usb drivers and they are up to date.
I followed live code's step by step and no success. I am thinking that since I am running windows 7 not a Mac, maybe this cant be done. It seems all the developers run Mac's?
I even tried to make a .apk, It made the file but " There was a problem parsing the package" once I got it on my Galaxy tab. I made sure that I checked the box to allow programs to run on my tablet. So I am still stuck.
To see if the SDK is working correctly you could try to use the Android SDK emulator first.
Open the Android SDK Manager and select the menu Tools->Manage AVDs.
There you can create a virtual Android device and run it.
If the virtual device is running you can see the virtual device under "Development->Test Target in Livecode. Select it and either select "Test" under "Development" or press the "Test" button. Does this work?
That error message means that the operating system on your device is preventing the app from being installed. The most likely reason for this is that you haven't changed the "Allow installation of apps from Unknown Sources" setting on your Galaxy Tab. There are other reasons and solutions for this error message - to see them visit Panagiotis's excellent blog post on the LiveCode website, your error message is in the fifth example
https://livecode.com/how-to-deploy-apps-to-android-devices/
Environment:
Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit hosted in Windows Azure
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 (Update 2)
I get the following error when trying to run a very simple phone app. I know MS says a VM-within-a-VM environment isn't supported, but I know it can work. Has anyone had success with this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Windows Phone Emulator
The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to ensure the virtual machine was running:
Something happened while starting a virtual machine: 'Emulator WVGA 512 MB.' failed to start.
(Virtual machine ID CADD6546-129A-4683-9A2D-52EAE777E888)
The Virtual Machine Management Service failed to start the virtual machine 'Emulator WVGA 512 MB.'
because one of the Hyper-V components is not running
(Virtual machine ID CADD6546-129A-4683-9A2D-52EAE777E888).
Prior to seeing the error, the emulator emits the on-screen messages:
Loading ...
The Windows Phone OS is starting ...
And then the error. Of all the Hyper-V services available, the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service is the only one which is running.
Thanks,
Chris
I had the same issue with Visual Studio running on windows 8.1 in vmware player
What I had to do to solve the problem was this :
Tick the box "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI" in the processor settings of your VM
Add the line "hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = FALSE" in the file "Windows 8 x64.vmx" (add it between line 5 and 6. Not sure this matters, but at this line I'm sure it works)
Should be working fine
"You cannot host it in Azure. It needs to be a physical machine." -- Jeff Sanders (MSFT)
Florian.C's answer got me on the right track to get the emulator working correctly in VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro. In Fusion, the settings are under the "Processors & Memory" section. You have to open the "Advanced" section at the bottom and check the "Enable hypervisor applications for this virtual machine". Once that was done, I had to also open the .vmx file and add the "hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"" line. Originally I copied and pasted from SO and the VM threw an error when I booted it. It turns out the " I added around FALSE were not normal quotes. Once I fixed that, the VM booted and the emulator ran just fine under Fusion. Thanks for the great info!
I have a Kernel mode filter driver project. Host: Win8 Pro x64 running VS2012, Target:Win8 Pro x64 VM on the same machine. I was able to provision the VM through VS 2012 over the network. I deployed the package project. When I try to deploy and Install the package from VS, I am not able to succeed. So I manually installed the driver and the driver works fine. After installing the driver manually, I attach to the kernel of the VM and click on Break all. I find the Kd console in the immediate window of VS '12. I type the command "bu !DriverEntry" and then I type the "g" command. I see the message Debuggee is running. When I place break points on my code and press any key in the VM, I don't see the break points getting hit in my code. Need help!!
Use Fltmc command to load and attach your filter to a specific drive
You can put breakpoints directly in VS without the need to type in the console, if your filter is getting loaded after you type fltmc load "filter name" VS should stop at the driver entry function breakpoint, you may also need to attach it.
Dont forget to check if your debugger is working by when you click break all target machine should freeze.
I wasn't able to debug through VS. I went for a work around and this time I used a Win7 VM. Made use of the KdPrint() method and used the DebugView tool to see the messages. This is a lengthy process but atleast I'm able to debug my driver. Hope this helps someone else too
I am getting the following error when starting Visual Studio 2012 as unprivileged user:
An error has occurred while trying to access the log file. Logging may not function properly.
A casual web search showed that the issue used to exist with VMware 6 beta, back in 2006. I also found one other user who experiences the same in a more recent VS version (2008) and it started only recently.
The title of the message box indicates that this comes from VMware. I have VMware 9 Workstation installed. The problem could be related to system updates or the update 2012.2 CTP and hasn't gone with the final 2012.2 update package.
The question:
How can I get rid of the error without actually disabling the VMDebugger add-in?
Temporary workaround:
There is a workaround, disabling VMDebugger in the "Add-in Manager". However, it even seems that unprivileged users are unable to successfully disable it. I had to start VS as admin (I am using SuRun for the purpose) to disable it and the error not reappearing upon next start of the IDE.
I had the exact same problem, this is how I solved it.
I monitored devenv.exe using procmon to find the log path, on my computer it was: %TEMP%\vmware-username
I checked the permissions on the log directory, and discovered that my user had no access - neither read nor write! I gave myself full access and deleted the old log files. That solved it for me.
I think this happened because UAC was disabled when I installed VS and VMware.
In Visual Studio, go to the menubar to VMWARE / About VMWare Virtual Debugger; the Debugger log file will be listed there, e.g. C:\Users\Phil\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-Phil\vmware-vsid-1.log
Give your user full access to that file.
(This solution was for Visual Studio 2013, VMware Workstation 11.1.2, Windows 8.1.)
The fastest and easiest way to solve is...
1. Locate the folder %temp%\vmware-{username}
2. Delete this folder. The folder will be created by opening the Visual Studio.
Note: You need to open the Visual Studio without admin rights to resolve the issue!
Background: Mostly this happens if you use the VMware debugger plugin the first time under admin rights (because your app may need this right to run properly). This creates the folder under admin rights with the admin permissions. Everytime you open the Visual Studio with admin rights, you have no problems.
Examples
Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\vmware-<username>-<PID>.log
Linux: /tmp/vmware-<username>/ui-<PID>.log
This post helped me
The fastest and easiest way to solve is...
1. Locate the folder %temp%\vmware-{username}
Go in windows+R %temp% , delete all , ready !
We are using MC9090's running CE 5.0. We are using a program called Wavelink Studio Client to access our scan application. Studio Client is different and not the same as Wavelink Telnet CE. Wavelink Studio is only a "Go Between" and does not hold any settings. The Wavelink Studio basically looks at the scanner .dll and pulls settings from that.
My problem is that I have an Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode with 16 length. The MC9090 comes with two demo programs ScanWedge and ScanSamp. I can modify the length for int 2 of 5 in either of these programs and my barcode will scan through Wavelink Studio Client. However, after a warm boot I lose all my settings since these are just demo programs.
So, I turned to DataWedge. Which uses its own config folder to store settings, but I assume loads the settings into the scanner .dll. My barcode scans perfectly in Studio Client when DataWedge is installed only after the DataWedge process has been "Stopped" then "Started". If perform a warm boot and DataWedge starts... my barcode will not scan through studio client until DataWedge has been Stopped, then my barcode will scan through Studio Client whether DataWedge is Started or Stopped.
My question is: Is there a script/command line/bat/etc. that I could use that would "Stop" DataWedge, then "Start" DataWedge after a warm boot? This is one way to solve my problem.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know. I have repeatedly been told that the settings from ScanSamp and ScanWedge (demo apps) are not stored anywhere on the device. I believe they are stored somewhere though. Because, when I make a change on DataWedge, I can open ScanWedge and the settings happen there to. So there must be some central location where the hard scan settings are stored? I just need to be able to edit the settings in this location and have them stay there. I don't even need DataWedge if the scanner would hold the settings in the .dll that I specify from ScanWedge. With datawedge uninstalled, I tried changing my settings in ScanWedge then using RemCapture to capture all the settings from the device.. I then loaded those settings onto another device to see if it would load the scan settings, but it did not.
Set the options in ScanWedge. Then Use "Remote Registry Editor" that comes with Visual Studio 2008 and go to this path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Symbol\ScanWedge]
There you will see the various settings for ScanWedge. To persist these settings over warm & cold boot do the following:
Open Notepad on the PC.
Type the following registry entry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Symbol\ScanWedge]
"AutoEnter"=dword:00000000
"AutoPIE"=dword:00000000
"AutoTab"=dword:00000000
"Binary"=dword:00000000
"Data"=dword:00000001
"Escape"=dword:00000001
"Prefix"=""
"Suffix"=""
Save the file as scanwedge.reg
Place the file on your Terminal in the \Application Folder using ActiveSync.
Cold boot the terminal.
NOTE: A cold reboot will erase all files, except the application and platform folder. Save your files before cold booting.
Hope this helps.