Troubleshooting Index

• Emulator Switch Errors

Windows Phone Emulator can not start and Windows Phone Emulator error messages are showing referencing switch or communication problems.

• [Multiple emulator instances problem](Driver fails to start emulator if Visual Studio already started same emulator and vice versa)

Driver can not start Windows Phone Emulator when another instance of Emulator is already started by Visula Studio or vice versa. Windows Phone Emulator is unable to create a differencing disk message or similar is shown.

• Infrastructure problems (in Russian)

Windows Phone Emulator can not start and Windows Phone Emulator is unable to set some properties message or similar is shown.

• Other

Emulator fails to start due to some unexpected Hyper-V problem. Try restarting host machine.

External Links

StackOverflow - Windows Phone Emulator, Hyper-V errors