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Windows Developer Preview in Virtual Environmnet

September 17, 2011 by arvindk 1 Comment

Windows Developer Preview is available for download and everyone wants to taste the flavour of this OS. Most of the users wants to install developer preview in a Virtual Environments instead of giving a fresh installation on a separate dedicated partition. We will some FAQs regarding Virtual Machine and its environment respect to Windows Developer Preview:

Virtual machine products allow you to run a guest OS on top of an existing host OS that runs natively on the physical machine. As many of you know, virtualization is a popular way to try out new operating system products since you don’t have to dedicate a physical machine, add a spare disk, or repartition. To run the Windows 8 Developer Preview as a guest OS, you need a virtualization product that supports it.

There are so many manufacturers of Virtual Machine and they may or may not be compatible with Windows Developer Preview so here is a outcome result of assessment so far done for the functionality test over Developer Preview:
Functional:

  • Hyper-V in Windows 8 Developer Preview
  •  Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2
  •  VMware Workstation 8.0 for Windows
  •  VirtualBox 4.1.2 for Windows

Non-functional:

  • Microsoft Virtual PC (all versions)
  •  Microsoft Virtual Server (all versions)
  •  Windows 7 XP Mode
  •  VMWare Workstation 7.x or older

Soon all Virtual machine will be update so as to work on Windows Developer Preview and for the coming one also.

Download:

  • VMware Workstation 8.0 for Windows
  • VirtualBox 4.1.2 for Windows

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  1. Gerjan says

    September 19, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Note for VMware Workstation 8: Make sure to remove the floppy before booting, else you will get a Product Key error.

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