Dear VWU, Trying the developer preview out in a virtual machine is a smart way to go, since you can do a clean install and play around without worrying about messing up your computer. All three of the virtualization apps you mentioned can run the Windows 8 developer preview.
Here's how to install it and my experience running it on each of these apps. As mentioned previously , both bit and bit versions are available, plus a bit version with developer tools. Make sure you get the right build—otherwise you'll get errors such as "device drivers not found" halfway through the install process yes, I learned that from experience. Not sure which version you're running?
Check out our guide to bit vs. For this test I used the bit preview without the developer's tools. You're probably wondering what the difference is between these three programs if they are all meant to do the same thing—run a different operating system within your main OS—and why you shouldn't just go with the free one.
We're going to do a more in-depth comparison soon, but just to answer your question about trying Windows 8 on a VM, here's how it has worked out with these three programs: Windows 8 runs smoothly on both VMware Fusion 4 and Parallels Desktop 7 with just 1GB of RAM allocated, but for some reason even with 2GB of memory set aside VirtualBox just ran terribly, add-years-to-your-life slowly in my experience, at least.
Yours may vary, depending on hardware, operating system, and other conditions. Here are the details:. It took several tries wrong build user error aside and many hours of waiting and frustration to finally get Windows 8 installed, but it did, finally, install.
Then, you'll need to go into the settings of the virtual machine you just created and check some options thanks to these tips from AddictiveTips :. Finally click Start to begin the installation and walk through the Windows 8 installation. Start Free Trial. Log In. Web Dev. Just Follow the Below Tips. Adolf Parker. Published: Nowadays, Virtual Machines are used equally by small and large scale organizations.
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