I have a machine running Windows 7 Professional SP1 directly on hardware.
I use this machine for all developing stuff. As this includes web– as well as WP7–development I have some virtual linux-hosts running inside VMWareServer2 for my webdevelopment.
As soon as I start the WindowsPhone emulator (natively, not inside any of the VMWare client-instances) all the VMWare machines stop working and remain unstartable upon restart of my Windows 7 machine.
It seems, that the launch of WindowsPhone emulator (which is a virtual machine itself) crashes VMWareServer and keeps it locked down even after the WindowsPhone emulator was closed.
How can I prevent the WindowsPhone emulator from crashing VMWareServer?
Have a look at this blog post, he seems to have the same problems as you and found a work around... Although not an idea one he had to disable hardware assisted emulation in VMWareServer.
VMWare themselves just say to uninstall the competitors emulator... as if that was an option
http://pcbl.de/2011/06/13/round-1-fight-windows-phone-7-emulator-x-vmware/
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My friend and I have downloaded some discountinued videogames from Old Games Download - Retrogaming and Abandonware (which I warmly recommend to any CD-ROM aficionado!). We managed to run two of them after downloading them, mounting their .ISO file and installing them on a Windows 10 machine. The process was fairly smooth.
We are struggling to run the other two. They’re only compatible with Windows XP, so we created a virtual box with XP as the OS, but still no luck. We can’t get the virtual box to connect to Wi-Fi in any way, even after following several tutorials found online. We have tried mounting the games’s ISOs in the following ways:
Using Virtual Clone Drive
Using WinCDEmu
Using Win XP Virtual CD Control Panel
And we think we have managed to actually mount the ISO and install the programme on the virtual machine, but the game won’t start anyway. When we try to run it, this window opens:
Monsters & Co CDROM initial window, with title, play button, exit button
But when we click ‘play’ nothing happens. We have checked the “Insert Guest Addition CD Image” setting that triggers Autoplay and it seems to be up and running. What can we try next?
VirtualBox access internet by connecting to your real machine (the host machine) as if it was a router of some kind. There is no need to make the virtual machine (guest machine) use your wifi adapter directly to get internet connection, just add a virtual network adapter to your guest machine and VirtualBox takes care of everything else (but make sure you have checked the appropriated options during installation process so drivers are installed in your host machine).
Now, the game not launching is hard to say, as we don't have any message or other info about what is causing the falling. Yet, this is a 3D game and VirtualBox is not good enough to hand this kind of computation.
USB Device Causing VM's to Freeze - Cannot Kill vmware-vmx.exe
The problem was described here - https://communities.vmware.com/thread/612551
but anyone has no answer for it.
Generally, the problem is like so:
launch vm
connect usb stick or usb phone cable
vm freezes
it is not possible to terminate vmware-vmx.exe process (even as a SYSTEM user with highest privs).
The issue occurs on vmware workstation 14 & 15 on Windows 10 Pro Build 1903
Also tried disabling windows defender (maybe some strange scan policy) but no results.
Tried also to change almost every setting in workstation but no results...
please help
I was facing exactly the same issue and I have finally found the solution.
Update to VMWare Workstation version 15.5. Update the VM Tools in the Guest operating System, and it works!! Tried with Android Devices, in USB Tethering Mode also.
The Windows phone emulator running Windows 10 has been working since I've installed it and last time I used the emulator was a few days ago. Now for some reason when I load my application emulator does not load the OS.
here's the steps I go throuogh to run the app :
-Run "Mobile Emulator 10.0.10586.0 720p 5 inch 1GB (which is my usual emulator to run)"
Message box saying "Configuring Windows Phone for debugging ... "
Another message box appears saying "Click "Retry" to run the emulator in elevated mode. :
You do not have permission to modify internal Hyper-V network adapter settings, which are required to run the emulator
Click retry on the message box
"Are you sure you want to run Windows Phone Packages?" Click Yes
Configuring Windows Phone for debugging box still running
Phone emulator runs but stuck on "OS is starting..."
Message box appears after leaving it running for roughly 15 mins :
"The emulator is unable to connect t the device operation system :
Couldn't set up the UDP port. Some Functionality might be disabled.
will add this to the steps"
I've followed the instructions from forums to go to Hyper-V Manager and delete the virtual switches and virtual machines - which doesn't work. And I also have Hyper-V enabled on windows features.
Any other solutions would be appreciated, Thanks in advance!
UPDATE : so I've left it running just to see if it works eventually, now another message box appears saying :
The emulator is unable to connect to the device operation system : Couldn't set up the UDP port. Some functionality might be disabled.
UPDATE : So I managed to fix it .. a little. It works for the other apps I have as well as newly created universal windows projects. But this specific app doesn't . I notice that this specific one has the "Configuring Windows Phone for debugging" message pop up whereas the other ones don't.
Why not start fresh?
New OS, new install, everything from scratch.
And don't forget to not play with UAC, OS permissions, the firewall, and do not install anything which would install virtual network adapters. Like OpenVPN, USB modems (including an iPhone), etc.
This is a solution, because your problem could be anything.
I have a Mac and I am deciding whether to install Windows 7 or 8 on Boot Camp.
Is it possible to test websites inside actual windows of IE6+ and older Firefox/Chrome/Opera browsers with Windows 8?
I tried bootcamping a Core 2 Duo iMac a year or so ago with Windows 8 and it would cause regular crashes. It looks like there is an updated to Bootcamp (I was running the previous version 4) which supports Windows 8 so you could use either option.
If you use Windows 7 (like I did), you can install and run Windows Virtual PC with different versions of Windows and IE. The cool thing is Virtual PC has something called Integration Features which allows you to launch specific applications (like IE) from the virtual machines without being in the virtual machines. (Think virtual applications)
I do this. I have one Virtual PC with XP and IE6. I cloned it, upgraded it to IE7 and then did the same thing with IE8. Now I've got a Windows 7 machine with IE9 and virtual browsers of IE8, 7, and 6. I also run older versions of Firefox on those cloned XP machines.
If you use Windows 8 you can do the same thing, its just a little different procedure (see my comment below) because Windows 8 uses Hyper-V instead of Virtual PC. I prefer Virtual PC because of the Integration Features, with Windows 8 you'll have to use the Hyper-V console but you can do the same thing.
You'll need a virtual machine within Windows 8 to run anything earlier than IE10, since Windows 8 only started with IE10.
There are some hacks to make pages behave a bit "like" IE6 (or other browsers), but I doubt they are going to work well now you're reaching all the way back from IE10.
Firefox/Chrome/Opera will work OK, as they aren't integrated into the OS.
There are a couple of options that might work for you better than installing Windows 7 or 8 on bootcamp:
Use a service such as BrowserStack. This costs money, but Microsoft provides 3 free months via Modern.ie
Install virtual machines on your Mac. Microsoft makes these available for free, also via Modern.ie
I'm working on a legacy app that needs to be continued in VS 2003; I cannot effectively debug it, though, because when I try to run it, I get the following dialog:
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Deploy
Choose the device to target. If the .NET Compact Framework is not already on the selected device, it will be deployed along iwth your application.
Pocket PC 2002 Emulator
Pocket PC Device
Windows CE .NET Device
Windows CE .NET Emulator (Default)
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I am running this (VS 2003) in XP Mode (Virtual Machine) on Windows 7. I do not have a connection (from XP Mode) to the device - a Symbol/Motorola PDT 3090 - so I get, "Unable to connect" when trying to run/debug/deploy in VS 2003.
What has been the case up to now is the developer would build the binary, adding debug messages, and then copy the binary over to the device and run it. Rather than continue this method, I would prefer to be able to debug it from within VS 2003. Is there a way to do this? None of the options (Pocket PC 2002 Emulator, etc.) seem to work...the device is attached to the computer via a usb. The Emulators won't work because they don’t have the necessary hardware (barcode scanner). So I need to use one of the *Device options, but have not been able to connect the usb port to XP Mode.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to debug without the constant copying-and-replacing of binaries, and the use of "show message"?
UPDATE
Alternately, if I can't run the app from within VS 2003 / XP Mode as an emulator, it would also be fine to run it on the attached Motorola handheld, attached via usb cable from the cradle to the desktop computer; I prefer the former, for the debugging capabilities afforded, but even the latter would be better than my current predicament (copying the files to the handheld device, detaching it from the computer, attaching it to the belt printer, firing it up, testing and repeat ad nauseum ad infinitum). ASAP (within two hours), I will set a bounty on this question.
UPDATE 2
If I try to run from VS 2003 in an emulator, and select "Windows CE .NET Emulator (Default)", I get:
"Emulator for Windows CE will not run within another copy of Emulator for Windows CE.
You just had to try, didn't you?"
?!? Is it saying this because I'm in a VM (XP Mode) session?
Then I select "OK" (the only option), and get, "There were deployment errors. Continue?" That trick never works; it even causes the build to fail (a rebuild fixes that, though).
UPDATE 3
Perhaps my problem with not being able to debug by connecting to the device itself is related to this msg I saw when booting up this morning (but I don't know what to do about it, IF this is the problem - do I need to search for a new driver for the Motorola MC3100?):
Devices or applications disabled.
Virtual PC/Windows CE Emulator will cause Windows to become unstable. Windows has prevented these drivers from loading. click here for more details.
The "more details" are:
Virtual PC/Windows CE Emulator
Microsoft
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Issue Description:
A driver is installed that causes stability problems with your system. This driver will be disabled. Please contact the driver manufacturer for an update that is compatible with this version of Windows.
Contact Information:
Web Site: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=26320
Telephone: 1-800-936-5800
That link (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=26320) ended up as: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"
UPDATE 4
There is some headway (or perhaps just false hope) on the connecting to the device front:
I have 4 USB ports on my desktop machine. I plugged the USB cable into the 3rd from the top for the first time a bit ago. It then said it was recognized, and ActiveSync was finally able to make a connection.
So I then tried deploying the app again. The fourth option (the default - C.E. Device Emulator) failed as always. So did the penultimate choice (C.E. device). The second option, though (Pocket PC device), seems to possibly be working.
However, I got a cryptic err msg that just said:
#183:
I dismissed that and since then (it's been a good ten minutes now), the bottom of the VS Output windows has been saying "Launching Application" (with a blinking cursor beneath it) and the task bar has been claiming "Deploy started..."
Whether that is really of any value, though, it doesn't appear to be, as I am just "stuck" there...
Windows CE .NET Emulator (Default)
This should be the one you want, if you are running Windows CE.
The Barcode Reader takes the code and converts it to a string for you, so your code will never need to "decode" a barcode.
So, when you are testing your software using the CE Emulator, simply select the textbox you want to read the barcode to, and type that value in using your keyboard.
In your Windows 7 host PC's task bar, right click on the XP Mode VS2003 application. In the menu that appears select "Manage USB Devices".
Select your Windows Mobile device and hit the "Attach" button. Your XP Mode PC should connect via ActiveSync. (This assumes you've installed ActiveSync on the XP Mode VM. If not, you should do that first.)
Try rebooting the virtual machine. (Not the same as closing and re opening it). If that doesn't work, try a different USB port. You may end up reinstalling XP mode.
See also: How to Access USB Devices in Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7