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With the launch of Windows 8's Consumer Preview, you're probably itching to spend some quality time with Microsoft's latest operating system. Although you may have already downloaded the ISO, we bet some of you haven't decided how you're going to install it.
Considering you've just met, we assume most of you aren't ready to clear a dresser drawer for Windows 8. Dual booting is popular, but in our experience, rebooting into a separate environment is more trouble than it's worth when you're just trying to sample beta (err, "preview") software. The same could be said for using the OS on a secondary PC near your primary rig.
Fortunately, running Windows 8 in a virtual machine solves all that: it won't remove your current OS, you can access it anytime you want without rebooting and it doesn't require any extra hardware. What's more, the test OS can be deleted in only a few mouse clicks.
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I'm frustrated that Windows 8 won't work when I install it in VirtualBox. I picked VirtualBox because it worked well when I tried Windows 7 beta in it. After I try the steps mentioned above and Windows 8 reboots after installation, it gets stuck at the boot screen or shows an error. I've tried several times, checking settings and still have not been able to try Windows 8. My Win7 machine has 150GB of free hard drive space and 2GB Memory. Please help!!
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A VM doesn't work well if you're demo'ing on a tablet because you lose the touch features
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Installed VM, set it up, the Win8 window flashes by and then stopped by the Shell window, said I have a
Audio error, I unchecked audio, and still receiving the error, the list of audio in the setup, does not list
Realtech audio.. any magic fixes out there.??
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sorry! but product key! is not working it's shows unable to verify! please help!
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