Windows Phone Emulator error, Hyper-V components not running, Windows 8.1 hosted in Windows Azure

I had the same issue with Visual Studio running on windows 8.1 in vmware playerWhat I had to do to solve the problem was this :

Tick the box "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI" in the processor settings of your VM

Add the line "hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = FALSE" in the file "Windows 8 x64.vmx" (add it between line 5 and 6. Not sure this matters, but at this line I'm sure it works)

Should be working fine

"You cannot host it in Azure. It needs to be a physical machine." -- Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Florian.C's answer got me on the right track to get the emulator working correctly in VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro. In Fusion, the settings are under the "Processors & Memory" section. You have to open the "Advanced" section at the bottom and check the "Enable hypervisor applications for this virtual machine". Once that was done, I had to also open the .vmx file and add the "hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"" line. Originally I copied and pasted from SO and the VM threw an error when I booted it. It turns out the " I added around FALSE were not normal quotes. Once I fixed that, the VM booted and the emulator ran just fine under Fusion. Thanks for the great info!