Chuck! Lifesaver!!! Had to be the only VM soft I didn't try ><, no luck on VMware or virtualbox.
Thanks! On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Chuck Lantz <cla...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hey Ally, > > Thanks for letting us know! > > Here's what I do: The Windows Phone emulator works inside of Parallels on > an OSX machine. You just need to bump up the RAM and CPUs a bit in your VM > and check "Enable nested virtualization." > > -Chuck > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ally Ogilvie [mailto:aogil...@wizcorp.jp] > Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:09 PM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Subject: Re: Introduction > > Hi Dmitry, and other recent MS devs that have joined the Cordova bullet > train (Omar, Sergey..etc.). > > Since you guys are all on this channel now i'd like to say that it would > be really nice if there was an alternative Windows Phone emulator that does > not use Hyper-V so more devs can develop for WP through VMs... > > For Cordova applications especially (- the main point being multi-platform > exporting..), I can add all my platforms to my project on an OS X machine > for example but testing the different platforms right now is a real pain. > The easiest solution one would think it so use VMs and that does work for > almost all platforms (ios, android, ubuntu etc.) apart from Windows.... T-T > > -- Side note-- At Wizcorp we use http://www.vagrantbox.es/ and have a lot > of our own production environments packaged through vagrant too. I created > a 64-bit Windows box so I could install the WP SDK and VS but alas the > Hyper-V problem. (Thanks BTW to your MSOpen team for contributing the > 32-bit boxes - they should add 64-bit, I tried reaching out on Twitter but > no reply). > > I'm pretty sure the Intel XDK guys would be interested in VM-ing WP > deployments too. Since they are getting way too pally with Apple, this > could be a chance to Win(does) them back - ha, yes I just wrote that ;) > > I'd love to hear from anyone else on the channel if they test WP apps or > plugins any other way than Bootcamp (not a solution for me at work). > > Ally. > Twitter @allyogilvie > Github @aogilvie > > *Some Fun WP facts:*: > > + The Facebook Plugin according to PhoneGap Build is in over 61,000 > + Cordova > applications (rank #5 most popular plugin). - And none of them are Windows > Phone applications, because it does not support WP (because I cannot test > or write for WP on my OS X machine T-T). > > + I'm pretty sure i'm the only resident in Japan to have a Windows Phone > (the HTC 8x, WP is not available in Japan!). [Japan pop. is 127,650,000 - > 2014] > > + When I did a Cordova presentation at Microsoft HQ in Shinagawa (late > 2013) most of the staff had never seen a Windows Phone before! :) > > + I'm your #1 fan in Japan :o > > + I'm currently writing a book on Cordova and i'll be adding WP > + development > instructions (fortunately at home I have a Win PC). So please release WP OS > 8.1 ASAP or send me an 8.1 compatible phone :) > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > Hi Dmitry! > > > > Took a quick scan of your file-transfer tests cleanup. Looking great! > > Thanks for putting in the effort there, much appreciated. > > > > -Michal > > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Welcome aboard Dmitry, and congrats on your job at Microsoft. Happy > > > to have help, the more the merrier. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Jesse > > > > > > @purplecabbage > > > risingj.com > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Dmitry Blotsky > > > <dblot...@microsoft.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Cordova Dev mailing list, > > > > > > > > Hi! My name is Dmitry Blotsky, and I'm an engineer on the Visual > > > > Studio team at Microsoft. I'm new both to Microsoft and Cordova, > > > > and I would > > > like > > > > to contribute development efforts to Cordova in the near and far > > future. > > > > I've just submitted my ICLA, and the first contribution I hope to > > > > make > > to > > > > Cordova is a cleanup of the tests for the file transfer plugin. > > > > I've created a branch with my work, and I will create a pull > > > > request as soon > > > as > > > > my ICLA gets acknowledged. If you would like to see the branch > > > > before > > the > > > > PR is made, it is available here: > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/MSOpenTech/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/tree/test_c > > leanup > > > > > > > > Eagerly looking forward to working with you all! > > > > > > > > Kindly, > > > > > > > > Dmitry Blotsky > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > <http://www.wizcorp.jp/>Ally Ogilvie > Lead Developer - MobDev. | Wizcorp Inc. <http://www.wizcorp.jp/> > ------------------------------ > TECH . GAMING . OPEN-SOURCE WIZARDS+ 81 (0)3-4550-1448 | Website < > http://www.wizcorp.jp/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/Wizcorp> | > Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/Wizcorp> | LinkedIn < > http://www.linkedin.com/company/wizcorp> > -- <http://www.wizcorp.jp/>Ally Ogilvie Lead Developer - MobDev. | Wizcorp Inc. <http://www.wizcorp.jp/> ------------------------------ TECH . GAMING . 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