visual studio 2012 - Alternatives to Hyper-V to run the Windows Phone emulator

Question

I recently bought a Windows 8 laptop just for the sake of developing Windows Phone Apps. Mine is not a Pro version hence Hyper-V does not run. (I realized that Hyper-V needs WinPro after I bought the laptop).

I am not capable of upgrading to pro edition. Can anyone please suggest me any alternatives to Hyper-V where my emulator can run? Thanks.

Answer 1

you can use a virtual machine to deploy windows phone 8 OS. My laptop processor does not support hyper-v so, I've installed win phone 8 on a virtual machine. I found this link helpful.. check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANk_XaovqM