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Has anyone installed this as a virtual OS?

Always panics on boot in VMware. Sad :(

Edit: Seems to work in Parallels.

Edit 2: Boots in Parallels but is not very usable. Hangs very often, Parallels Tools do not work. Now trying in VirtualBox.

Edit 3: VirtualBox works as good or bad as Parallels. Native install seems to be the best option. Did someone try to install onto an external drive?

got VirtualBox handy/willing to give it a try?

I tried the 32 bit one (without developer tools) on VirtualBox on Windows 7. It panics with this message:

Unknown error creating VM - VERR_VMX_MSR_LOCKED_OR_DISABLED

That looks more like an issue with your machine. Does your CPU support VT extensions? Or they might not be enabled in the firmware. You can also fall back to traditional trap-n-emulate virtualization by disabling VT and nested paging in the VirtualBox preferences.

Thanks. Virtualization was disabled in the BIOS.

I have the 64-bit Dev Tools edition running pretty good in VBox. It doesn't like the VBox Tools, though they partial install. No seamless mouse sadly.

It does seem to hang up rather a lot, but it clears after a minute or two and keeps going. No panics yet.

I only did that, since I didn't have any DL DVDs, and no Windows install to make a bootable USB.

I just installed 64-bit dev tools into VBox on OSX and seamless mouse is supported. Everything just works so far..

Damn! That's the configuration I have, and it hung, then went through once I ran it in compatibility mode. Obviously something broke, or failed because the tools are not fully working.

Did you tell VBox it's Windows 7? And what version of VBox are you using, please?

Anyways, I ended up downloading the make usb key utility from MS, making a bootable install on the key, then installing on a spare HD on my box. aside from having to slip it all the drivers at start of install, the experience running on the metal is a lot better.

Yes, I said the OS was Windows 7 64-bit, VBox 4.1.2.

http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/SysAdmins/OS/Windows/...

Maybe this helps for VirtualBox

""" You need to have hardware virtualization enabled if you want to run Windows 8 in Virtual Box """

Works fine on VMWare workstation 7 for me. Installed as Windows 2008 64-bit profile.

Would you post your settings? I've tried several different configurations and it just keeps panicking :-(

Default ones worked for me. Windows 2008 64-bit. 40Gb disk. Do you haave VT-x on your CPU?

Yeah I do; I've tried manually enabling that in the settings or leaving it at automatic, along with various different memory sizes, core/cpu counts, SCSI vs IDE hard drive, also tried Windows 7 x64 as a base, and both 2008 and 2008 R2, all to no avail. VirtualBox it is then...

Thanks anyway!

Dang. Must be lucky with mine. Good luck with VBox :)

I'm following this guide and installing it on VirtualBox http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-virtualbox

... and I just finished installing it and it works terrific!

edit - I installed 64bit, btw.

Additional note for networking: I had to set the virtual NIC to "Bridged Adapter" and the type to "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop".

Besides that, the guide worked great, thanks! (I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and VirtualBox 4.1.2)

Yeah I'm keen to try it out when I get home tonight but don't exactly want to hose my home machine, hoping vmware player 64bit will play nicely with win8, if no one else has tried it by tonight I'll let you know how I went

I tried it on VMWare workstation 7. Works fine for me.

Thanks - I ran out of time last night, reading bed time stories to kids took priority

+1 for right priorities :)

I installed this on a Hyper-V VM - everything went pretty quickly except after install, the first time I tried to log in it sat there a while. I shut it down (cleanly) then it booted up fine the next time.

Everything pretty much works now, I've been playing around with it mostly via Remote Desktop. You'll probably want to disable some of the animated window switching transitions if you do because they don't seem to remote very well (yet?).

Just installed it under Parallels 7 under Lion on a MBPro. Installed OK, logged in and explored a bit. Performance was decent, but the Mac trackpad gestures are not relayed to the OS.

After installing Parallels tools and running one of the sample apps the screen froze with no way to get back in. Currently reinstalling. Will try it again this time without Parallels tools.

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