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Hololens Emulator supports Macbook Pro Retenia with Bootcamp?

I'm having a lot of trouble installing the Hololens Emulator on a Macbook Pro Retenia with Bootcamp.

In my setup I have Windows 10 installed via Bootcamp. With a bit of twisting around I've been able to enable Hypver-V in the Windows Features. It now seems to be running. FYI - Initially I was unable to enable Hyper-V Platform. But moving back to OSX and then back to Windows resolved that.

Immediately after enabling Hypver-V I tried to install the Emulator. But it complained that the Windows 10 SDK was missing. This confused me as I had done a full install on Visual Studio 2015. Went into the Modify Installation on VS2015. Sure enough the SDK 10 was missing. I tried to install it but got a failure. Eventually resolved this by installing the standalone SDK.

But the emulator installer continued to complain that it was missing. I did a restart to see if that fixed the issue with no luck. Today when I tried to install the emulator I got a different error

Error 39999. Hardware virtualization is disabled on this PC. You must enable it through the BIOS settings. For more information, see MSDN article at "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=252010".
CustomAction IsSlatEnabledCA.844ACA3D_A010_4E95_A942_A25A60050973 returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
MSI (s) (38:08) [11:30:54:039]: Note: 1: 2265 2: 3: -2147287035
MSI (s) (38:08) [11:30:54:039]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (38:08) [11:30:54:039]: Note: 1: 1402 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Rollback\Scripts 3: 2

AFAIK bootcamp replaces the BIOS. So that suggestion would not work for me. I re-checked the Windows Features and Hypver-V is still fully enabled.

Has anyone else got experience running the Hololens Emulator on a Macbook Pro Retenia via bootcamp? Is this a supported deployment model? Any suggestions for the above problem?

PS: My OSX is up-to-date as I'm aware that could be causing problems.

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Answers

  • Might not be a full answer to your question but may be helpful. It appears that there is no direct way to enable hardware virtualisation on bootcamped MacBook (there is no BIOS). There is however an indirect one. Which is exactly what you did: relaunch back to Mac, mark Windows drive as the default start-up drive, and reload to Windows. It's ugly, but apparently does some flag flush. Another similar approach I've heard of is with Parallels but I'm not sure as I don't have Parallels. I'm successfully deploying apps onto HoloLens using the conventional method and running Windows 10 Pro bootcamped on my MacBook Pro 15. So it's certainly possible.

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