Monday, March 1, 2010

Sun VirtualBox and Windows Mobile Emulator issues

I have been using VMWare for hosting virtual images of development but i got some serious performance issues after starting more than one virtual machine. Someone suggested using Sun Microsystems VirtualBox and I can say that everything ran very well until I had to configure Windows Mobile Device Emulator 6.5 Professional. After starting the Emulator (during "install device drivers" pop up) the whole guest operating system (Windows 7) got frozen and plugging the power off was the only solution.

I have searched for possible solution on the internet but could not found similar case; anyway I don't believe it happened only to me ;)

Temporary solution was switching back to VMWare (VMWare Player in this case) where the Windows Mobile Emulator works fine there.