Windows Phone Emulator not working

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Kalyan picture Kalyan · Jan 11, 2014 · Viewed 22.4k times · Source

When I try to start debugging my windows phone 8 app in Emulator WVGA 512MB the following error message is showing

The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to connect to the Windows Phone operating system:

The emulator couldn't determine the host IP address, which is used to communicate with the guest virtual machine.

Some functionality may be disabled.

and the emulator is always showing The Windows Phone OS is starting... Can't understand what's the problem. Please advice.

Answer

Andra Iuga picture Andra Iuga · Aug 29, 2014

This worked for me (found here):

follow the following steps to solve this problem
1.go to network and sharing center
2.go to change adapter setting
3.go to v Ethernet (internal Ethernet port windows phone emulator internal switch)
4.right click it and enable it(if already enabled then disable and enable it again).

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