Oct
20
Written by:
Oscar Meszar
10/20/2010 6:27 AM
If you do some Google searches on developing Windows Phone 7 applications in a virtual machine you will see that you can do it. I even found a post someone suggesting that it will work fine if you use VMware Fusion on a Mac. His last comment being "If you want to do Windows Phone 7 Development in a virtual machine, you might need to get a Mac. I love mine!".
The truth be told, you don't really need a Mac to develop your Windows Phone 7 applications in a virtual machine. You need VMware Workstation 7 for Windows and yes, you can use VMware Fusion for the Mac, and I would assume it would work with the Linux version but I've not tried that yet.
There is a catch to all this. VMware will work if you are building a Windows Phone 7 Silvelight application. However, if you are building XNA applications the emulator will give you an error about not having the right video card. The reason for that is that the virtual machine cannot emulate DirectX10 which is required for XNA games in the Windows Phone 7.
BTW, if you look at this other
post of mine you will see that I did get my XNA application to run in VMware. Well, yes for the purpose of that post I did get it to work, the emulator came up, but that's when I got the error about the video card.
That's it for now. Happy XNA'ing.
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