Launch your Xamarin IDE of choice and open a Xamarin Android project. You should see a device listed something like: emulator-5554
When prompted, enter your Mac admin username and password to open a connection from your Windows VM to OS X.Ĭonfirm that your Mac emulator device has been picked up by entering the following command: You will be presented with a command line console. From here add two forwarding configurations. Select Connection > SSH > Tunnels from the Category panel on the left side of the PuTTY SSH Client.
Parallels Desktop running a Windows 8 VM.Many thanks to James Montemagno for pointing me to Paul Batum's post on the Xamarin forum. If you've been looking for a way to develop your Xamarin Android apps in a Parallels Desktop Windows VM, but run the app in an Android emulator on your Mac, this post is an attempt to distill the information from across multiple sites to get you started.