Native Development

[MSohm]

We've recently discovered that our BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha simulators fail to boot in VMWare Player 5.0.  We are working a fixes as we speak.  In the mean time avoid this upgrade to continue using these simulators.

[MFSI]

This is a bug which is being resolved.
Till then you can use any previous version of VMWare Player 5.0

[jcameron]

do you mean use VMware-player-4.0.4 or do you mean another build of VMware player 5.0 ??

[simon_hain]

too bad, should have read this earlier.
now, if only my DevAlpha would boot again, it only starts after the battery is empty and i re-charge it...

[jcameron]

just to update - i've tested VMware player 4.0.4 and it works with the playbook beta 2.1

[2pintsandanaxe]

I managed to get the version 2.01 Playbook simulator working with VMWare Player 5.0.0, I am running this on a Fedora 17 X64 build. I cannot get the version 2.10 Playbook simulator running though, it just kicks me out and even shuts down VMWare Player.

[2pintsandanaxe]

I managed to get the version 2.10 simulator working. I had installed it originally as root (for some unknown reason) which meant it was write protected. I removed it as root, then reinstalled as user and voila! I now have two simulator versions working in Linux.

[2pintsandanaxe]

I have the BB10 Simulator (BlackBerry10Simulator-BB10_0_06) running in VMware Player 5.0 with the provided kernel patch for Linux Kernel 3.5 .

[useful]

I have a problem with VMware Player on a Linux Ubuntu. Simulator Blackberry is started, you can compile and run the application, but the screen of the Simulator will remain black. Someone faced with a similar problem. To work now run NDK and Simulator for windows. Thank you

[MSohm]

This issue has been resolved in the new BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha simulator released last week.