If you are developing .NET Compact Framework apps (Pocket PC or Windows Mobile), using, for instance, Visual Studio 2008, but you are using a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine (where you have all the development environment installed), things get a little bit tricky when you want to access the network from the “Smart Device Emulator”…<\/p>\n
It turns out that when you want to enable the ‘Smart Device Emulator network card’ (from Pocket PC emulator window –> Configure –> Network –> Enable NE2000 network adapter), it needs to have the “Virtual Machine Network Services Driver”. And that driver comes just with the Virtual PC 2007 (there’s no a standalone setup anymore for that..).<\/p>\n
So the funny thing is that you need to install “Virtual PC 2007” within your virtual Windows guest machine (for instance I’m using Windows Server installed as a virtual machine). Then, when you enable the ‘Smart Device Emulator network card’ (from Pocket PC emulator window –> Configure –> Network –> Enable NE2000 network adapter), then it will be able to find those drivers. Otherwise, it just says that it cannot find the drivers.<\/p>\n
So, in this specific scenario, we need to just install “Virtual PC 2007” into a ‘Windows virtual machine’ which is already running within another “Virtual PC 2007” and hosting Windows (Windows vista, for instance). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The hole picture could be the following:<\/p>\n
Windows Vista –> running “Virtual PC 2007” –> Windows Server (guest OS)–> installed “Virtual PC 2007” (no need to run it) –> Smart Device Emulator –> Enable Network Card. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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