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Emulator cannot run because of Hyper-V Error

I have this error message:

The windows phone emulator requires Hyper-V. Your PC is missing the following pre-requisites required to run Hyper-V:

I cannot run my project on windows 8 phone emulator since days. I searched on internet, still I couldn't solve my problem. Everyone says open Control-panel, then click turn-off or turn on windows features, then choose hyper-v option. When I clicked turn off or turn on windows features there is no option about Hyper-V. Can anyone help me?

My computer features:
windows-8 Professional (64Bit)
intel core i7 processor
8Gb ram

Solution

  • First step
    1- turn on hyper-v from bios

    read this : http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2014/03/11/step-by-step-enabling-hyper-v-for-use-on-windows-8-1.aspx

    2- turn on hyper-v from windows

    At the Start Screen, swipe the right hand side of the screen and select the Search Charm.

    Type turn windows features on or off and select that item.

    Select and enable Hyper-V.

    If Hyper-V was not previously enabled, reboot the machine to apply the change.