title: Windows Phone 8 Emulator on non-SLAT Machines
body: <p>Though this topic present over different forums with different confusing discussion but I couldn’t find any instance of it present over here at StackOverflow and it could be an important issue for many so I’ll just start it here as I am also currently struggling with this problem by not having a SLAT supported hardware at my workplace.</p>
  
  <p>It is being said that:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"The new emulator is built on the latest version of Microsoft Hyper-V,
    which requires a 64-bit CPU that includes Second Level Address
    Translation (SLAT), a memory virtualization technology included in
    most modern CPUs from Intel and AMD.
    SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is required only to run the Windows Phone emulator. You can still
    build Windows Phone 8 apps on a non-SLAT computer; you will simply
    need to deploy and test them on a physical device." -  <em>[Windows Phone 8 Development Internals]</em></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Now the problem is I do have 64-bit CPU (Intel Core2Quad) but it doesn't have SLAT support and many other out there must be having fine but non SLAT PCs (for Intel mostly processor before i3 don’t have this support)</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Now my question is it really like this a dead end? and if someone wants to develop for windows phone 8 he would have to either buy a new system or a latest WP (even with WP it would cumbersome in the development process)</p></li>
  <li><p>There isn’t really a way out of it using any other thing like VMware, Virtual box etc.?</p></li>
  <li><p>Are there any other third party emulator or options available to achieve this?</p></li>
  <li><p>If not than why, what has changed so significantly in the new SDK release that has made it impossible to backward compatible?</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I repeat my main question in the end again:
  <strong><code>Is it really impossible to develop for windows phone 8 with its emulator functioning if you have one of non-SLAT supported PCs?</code></strong></p>
  
  <p>Thankyou!</p>