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Has anyone installed this as a virtual OS?

by acak 15y ago

gabbo 15y ago
I installed this on a Hyper-V VM - everything went pretty quickly except after install, the first time I tried to log in it sat there a while. I shut it down (cleanly) then it booted up fine the next time. Everything pretty much works now, I've been playing around with it mostly via Remote Desktop. You'll probably want to disable some of the animated window switching transitions if you do because they don't seem to remote very well (yet?).
raminf 15y ago
Just installed it under Parallels 7 under Lion on a MBPro. Installed OK, logged in and explored a bit. Performance was decent, but the Mac trackpad gestures are not relayed to the OS. After installing Parallels tools and running one of the sample apps the screen froze with no way to get back in. Currently reinstalling. Will try it again this time without Parallels tools.
malbs 15y ago
Yeah I'm keen to try it out when I get home tonight but don't exactly want to hose my home machine, hoping vmware player 64bit will play nicely with win8, if no one else has tried it by tonight I'll let you know how I went
- pointyhat 15y ago
  I tried it on VMWare workstation 7. Works fine for me.
  - malbs 15y ago
    Thanks - I ran out of time last night, reading bed time stories to kids took priority
    - pointyhat 15y ago
      +1 for right priorities :)
bstx 15y ago
Always panics on boot in VMware. Sad :( Edit: Seems to work in Parallels. Edit 2: Boots in Parallels but is not very usable. Hangs very often, Parallels Tools do not work. Now trying in VirtualBox. Edit 3: VirtualBox works as good or bad as Parallels. Native install seems to be the best option. Did someone try to install onto an external drive?
- malbs 15y ago
  got VirtualBox handy/willing to give it a try?
  - acak 15y ago
    I tried the 32 bit one (without developer tools) on VirtualBox on Windows 7. It panics with this message: Unknown error creating VM - VERR_VMX_MSR_LOCKED_OR_DISABLED
    - bstx 15y ago
      That looks more like an issue with your machine. Does your CPU support VT extensions? Or they might not be enabled in the firmware. You can also fall back to traditional trap-n-emulate virtualization by disabling VT and nested paging in the VirtualBox preferences.
      - acak 15y ago
        Thanks. Virtualization was disabled in the BIOS.
- watmough 15y ago
  I have the 64-bit Dev Tools edition running pretty good in VBox. It doesn't like the VBox Tools, though they partial install. No seamless mouse sadly. It does seem to hang up rather a lot, but it clears after a minute or two and keeps going. No panics yet. I only did that, since I didn't have any DL DVDs, and no Windows install to make a bootable USB.
fondue 15y ago
I'm following this guide and installing it on VirtualBox http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-virtualbox http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-virtualbox ... and I just finished installing it and it works terrific! edit - I installed 64bit, btw.
- aodin 15y ago
  Additional note for networking: I had to set the virtual NIC to "Bridged Adapter" and the type to "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop". Besides that, the guide worked great, thanks! (I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and VirtualBox 4.1.2)

Has anyone installed this as a virtual OS?

by acak 15y ago

Has anyone installed this as a virtual OS?

gabbo 15y ago

I installed this on a Hyper-V VM - everything went pretty quickly except after install, the first time I tried to log in it sat there a while. I shut it down (cleanly) then it booted up fine the next time. Everything pretty much works now, I've been playing around with it mostly via Remote Desktop. You'll probably want to disable some of the animated window switching transitions if you do because they don't seem to remote very well (yet?).

raminf 15y ago

Just installed it under Parallels 7 under Lion on a MBPro. Installed OK, logged in and explored a bit. Performance was decent, but the Mac trackpad gestures are not relayed to the OS. After installing Parallels tools and running one of the sample apps the screen froze with no way to get back in. Currently reinstalling. Will try it again this time without Parallels tools.

malbs 15y ago

Yeah I'm keen to try it out when I get home tonight but don't exactly want to hose my home machine, hoping vmware player 64bit will play nicely with win8, if no one else has tried it by tonight I'll let you know how I went

pointyhat 15y ago
I tried it on VMWare workstation 7. Works fine for me.
- malbs 15y ago
  Thanks - I ran out of time last night, reading bed time stories to kids took priority
  - pointyhat 15y ago
    +1 for right priorities :)

bstx 15y ago

Always panics on boot in VMware. Sad :( Edit: Seems to work in Parallels. Edit 2: Boots in Parallels but is not very usable. Hangs very often, Parallels Tools do not work. Now trying in VirtualBox. Edit 3: VirtualBox works as good or bad as Parallels. Native install seems to be the best option. Did someone try to install onto an external drive?

malbs 15y ago
got VirtualBox handy/willing to give it a try?
- acak 15y ago
  I tried the 32 bit one (without developer tools) on VirtualBox on Windows 7. It panics with this message: Unknown error creating VM - VERR_VMX_MSR_LOCKED_OR_DISABLED
  - bstx 15y ago
    That looks more like an issue with your machine. Does your CPU support VT extensions? Or they might not be enabled in the firmware. You can also fall back to traditional trap-n-emulate virtualization by disabling VT and nested paging in the VirtualBox preferences.
    - acak 15y ago
      Thanks. Virtualization was disabled in the BIOS.
watmough 15y ago
I have the 64-bit Dev Tools edition running pretty good in VBox. It doesn't like the VBox Tools, though they partial install. No seamless mouse sadly. It does seem to hang up rather a lot, but it clears after a minute or two and keeps going. No panics yet. I only did that, since I didn't have any DL DVDs, and no Windows install to make a bootable USB.

fondue 15y ago

I'm following this guide and installing it on VirtualBox http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-virtualbox http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-virtualbox ... and I just finished installing it and it works terrific! edit - I installed 64bit, btw.

aodin 15y ago
Additional note for networking: I had to set the virtual NIC to "Bridged Adapter" and the type to "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop". Besides that, the guide worked great, thanks! (I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and VirtualBox 4.1.2)