title: Windows Phone 8 emulator error - Something happened while creating a switch
body: <p>I have a similar problem like mentioned in this question:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13148828/windows-phone-8-unable-to-create-the-virtual-machine">Unable to create the virtual machine</a></p>
  
  <p>But, my problem is a bit different in the error description:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nxin8.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p><em>The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to create the virtual machine: Something happened while creating a switch: Xde couldn't find an IPv4 address for the host machine.</em></p>
  
  <p>I have SLAT compatible hardware, virtualization is enabled in BIOS, my Windows 8 installation is 64bit and it's <strong>not</strong> virtualized. Hyper-V is installed (tried reinstalling it, but it didn't help).
  EDIT: VirtualBox or any other virtualization software (except for Hyper-V) is not installed</p>
  
  <p>EDIT2: Seem to have been some other networking software which was installed. Having to remove it sucks big time because I need it professionally. I hope they fix it.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT3: I wrote about it in more details with all I could find <a href="http://igrali.com/2012/10/31/windows-phone-8-emulator-wasnt-able-to-create-the-virtual-machine/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">on my blog.</a></p>