Windows Phone 8 emulator doesn’t show the actual state of its OS

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Problem:

When I start Windows Phone 8 emulator it launches a virtual machine in Hyper-V. After a few minutes Windows Phone OS gets loaded (I can connect to it through Hyper-V manager (it's inconvenient to play with WP this way though)), but the emulator keeps reporting: "The Windows Phone OS is starting…".

After some time (apparently timeout happens) deployment from Visual Studio fails with error: "App deployment failed. Please try again."

How I got here?

Everything works fine when I use wifi connection and have a dynamic ip address. Emulator works properly and I have internet in Windows Phone OS.

But unfortunately most of the time I have to use Ethernet connection with a static IP address (which is assigned to me by internet provider based on my MAC address). And in this case there is no internet in Windows Phone emulator.
As far as I understand, virtual machine in Hyper-v connects to the network with a kind of it's own ethernet card(another MAC address) and have a different ip address. In that case it won't get any internet from my provider.
And even if the emulator would have the same MAC and IP address it will create a mess for internet traffic.

So my laptop should be a router for WP emulator. That's why I make sharing of my primary internet (ICS) with a Windows Phone emulator switch (vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch)). In this case I do have have an internet on Windows Phone, but when I connect through Hyper-V manager only. In Emulator it doens't even show when the OS gets loaded.

After I stop sharing of the internet with Windows Phone emulator switch, the emulator itself is working perfectly.. but with no internet.

Any ideas how to make windows phone emulator work with my type of internet connection?

Best Answer

Here is a good resource from Microsoft on Troubleshooting the Windows Phone 8 Emulator.

Follow the instructions and hopefully it should solve your problem

The Cannot connect to network destinations or to Internet sites section of the link, should address your problem.

Update:

One more solution from another site,

"Go into Hyper-V Manager from your start screen. Go into the Virtual Switch Manager. See if a virtual switch with the name "Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch", if not Create a virtual switch called "Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch". And Make it's connection type 'Internal'."

Do all this before launching the Emulator. And if that did not solve your problem, remove the existing switch and create the new one again.

If still that didnot solve your problem, here is a good discussion about the similar problem .. check that. Windows Phone 8 emulator can't connect to the internet

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I think I've finally found the answer, but you're probably not going to like it. It would appear that the phone emulator requires you to have a second network adapter to dedicate to this purpose. Personally, I run Windows 8 in VMWare, and so a second network adapter is free for me.

Anyway, after you get the second network adapter that you can dedicate for the phone emulator(must have internet)

Start from scratch. Go to the Hyper-V manager and delete the emulator along with all of the virtual switches
Start the emulator from Visual Studio; this will recreate it with all default settings(select yes you want to configure it to connect to the internet)
Shut it down
Now, go back to the Hyper-V manager
Delete the snapshot that was just created for the emulator. This will prevent your changes from disappearing
Find the virtual switch for your second network adapter in the Network Adapter settings(under control panel)
Disable TCP/IPv4, 6 and all other services. This prevents your host machine from trying to use the connection. While you're there, get the MAC(Physical) address of this adapter
Find the virtual-switch for your second network adapter under the Hyper-V settings for the emulator
Change the MAC type to static and paste in the MAC address of the adapter
Enable MAC spoofing (not sure if required, but just in case)
Then, find your virtual switch under "Virtual Switch Manager".
Ensure "Allow management operating system to share this network adapter" is unchecked and that all extensions are disabled
Click OK and then start the emulator from Visual Studio!

Basically, it appears that for some odd reason it won't properly work unless the phone has the same MAC address as the network adapter. However, we can't just set it to use the same MAC address because address conflicts are very very bad. So, we need a second adapter that we can dedicate to the Phone emulator. The reason we disable TCP/IP on this adapter is so our host machine doesn't use it and cause these conflicts.

Other things to try:

The emulator keeps randomly breaking for me. I'll list a few other things I messed with this last time that got it to work(not sure if related, so only try these if the steps above aren't working

"Reordering" of network adapters for the emulator so that the external virtual switch is at the top (make sure to copy over the MAC address for the internal adapter)
Removing unrelated network adapters
Restarting your machine after recongiguring virtual switches
Praying to your local Microsoft evangilist

Seriously. Everytime I stop phone work for a while and come back, the emulator is always magically broken without me changing anything. No idea how to get it to work "permanently".

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