"Not enough memory..." error when attempting to start windows phone emulator

Question

I actually got this error (image below) sometimes (not always), which means my hardware is fine (?).

Everytime I got this error I tried a walk around by starting the VM inside HyperV Manager (After upgrading to Windows 8.1, unable to run Windows Phone emulator without memory error).

But now, even when I started it, it still didn't work (image below).

The errors occurred when I started using Application Deployment to test a xap file in WVGA (not WVGA 512 MB) emulator, the emulator didn't start and after that whatever version of Emulator I tried, the same error appeared.

I tried deleting all the VMs in VM Manager and then started VS and run the emulator again but it still didn't work. I also restarted windows but the problem remained unsolved. I'm using VS2012 and Windows 8.1.

Answer 1

The primary reason behind this is that your machine doesn't have enough available memory for the VM to launch.

Here is a KB article that was recently posted to get around this by setting a registry key that limits the amount of memory available to the host machine.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2911380/en-us

I have used the above fix and it worked for me.