Microsoft is providing ISO images of the Windows 8 Developer Preview software shown at the BUILD keynote yesterday, and with VMware you (should) be able to sample it as a virtual Guest OS.
First things first. VMware Workstation is not free (VMWare Player is no good for this, for now). However, you can get VMware Workstation on a 30-day trial. To do this, you need to get a product key ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by ichihaifu: You can also install Windows 8 on Oracle's Virtualbox, which is completely free.
Yep, but I tried VirtualBox several times Tuesday night, kept getting internal error and when I had a look around I didn't seem to be the only one, so I went with VMware instead.
I would use VMware cuz is good for fullscreen.
You know VtBox didn't have a problem, maybe u didnt select the 4 processors.
Ok. so I did all of the steps, got to the windows 8 dev preview screen (with the loading circles) and then blue screen. Not sure where I went wrong. I have the X64bit version, should I download the 32bit version? Or is there a tool to check to see if it downloaded right? I have an HP pavilion dv7-4060us if that helps.
<p> hi guys, i was using win8 DP from two months and it was doing well :)
but today after increasing its custom text size to 500% it fails to load help needed to get access without resetting or refreshing PC </p>
i've also tried to open display setting using cmd but its not loading pls help
