Wednesday, September 14, 2011

[Other]Install Windows 8 developer preview.

Ok, I know! Windows is not my usual topic when it comes to this blog but since i'm a curious person this has to be done :-)

You can try out Windows 8 developer preview in Virtual box by doing following:

Download the image at Microsoft New Windows Dev Center.

  • Make sure your computer support Hardware Virtualization Technology.
  • Select Windows 7 as OS version.
  • Enable PAE/NX under processor settings.
  • Enable IO APIC.

Official requirements:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Note: VirtualBox guest additions is not available at this point.
 

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