Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox

> After BOIS has been configured, you need to do a reboot, shut down, wait about 10 seconds and then start up again.

Ignoring the BIOS spelling thing: What is this 10 second wait here? Magic? What do I have to say and which type of animal should I offer to the machine?

More serious: Why?

Got Win8 installed on VirtualBox just fine on my Dell laptop, but network adapters didn't work for me. So no internet. :(

I went with the virtual hard drive technique (http://hnsl.mn/win8vhd) instead and it worked perfectly. I'm now dual booting Win8 and Win7. :)

No luck for me with the 64-bit build in VMware Fusion 3.1.3. I hear it runs on VMware Fusion 4 though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996520

I'm trying the 32 bit developer preview on Virtual Box 4.0.12 with Host as a WinXpSP3 system. Even with the above settings I keep getting a "computer needs to restart" error. Anyone faced/solved this issue?

Does anyone know how to enable IO APIC on VMWare?

My attempt to install Win8 DP only gets a "HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED" error in the setup screen.

Hi Rod!

Networking didn't initially work for me but I got it going by using NAT with an Intel card; seems they included drivers for them.

Has anyone been able to make mouse integration work correctly? That is the only thing that I haven't been able to make work correctly.

Has anyone been able to use it in Bootcamp on a Mac?

Also it is important to do a full power shutdown, not just reboot if you are enabling virtualization in BIOS for the first time.