I’m planning to develop for Windows Phone 7 inside a VirtualBox VM on an OSX host. Am I going to be able to debug my app on the device? I’ve had problems with USB on VMs before.
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I’m planning to develop for Windows Phone 7 inside a VirtualBox VM on an OSX host. Am I going to be able to debug my app on the device? I’ve had problems with USB on VMs before.
Noting the system requirements of the emulator …
Setup and System Requirements for Windows Phone Emulator
… these constraints won’t be in the way if you’re not intending to use it.
Joel blogged his experiences doing just this with XP here.
Running the Windows Phone Dev Tools on Windows XP
Provided your VM environment can handle the USB connection and I don’t see any barriers to this.