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Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox

61 points| rodh257 | 14 years ago |blogs.lessthandot.com | reply

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[+] darklajid|14 years ago|reply
> After BOIS has been configured, you need to do a reboot, shut down, wait about 10 seconds and then start up again.

Ignoring the BIOS spelling thing: What is this 10 second wait here? Magic? What do I have to say and which type of animal should I offer to the machine?

More serious: Why?

[+] crististm|14 years ago|reply
This is mostly a safer version of a quick power on/off/on. Some badly designed power sources will cough when they start with charged capacitors... Ten seconds is neither enough nor too much.
[+] jinushaun|14 years ago|reply
Got Win8 installed on VirtualBox just fine on my Dell laptop, but network adapters didn't work for me. So no internet. :(

I went with the virtual hard drive technique (http://hnsl.mn/win8vhd) instead and it worked perfectly. I'm now dual booting Win8 and Win7. :)

[+] blueplz|14 years ago|reply
I'm trying the 32 bit developer preview on Virtual Box 4.0.12 with Host as a WinXpSP3 system. Even with the above settings I keep getting a "computer needs to restart" error. Anyone faced/solved this issue?
[+] blueplz|14 years ago|reply
Never mind. I hadn't turned on virtualization in my BIOS. Its working now.
[+] est|14 years ago|reply
Does anyone know how to enable IO APIC on VMWare?

My attempt to install Win8 DP only gets a "HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED" error in the setup screen.

[+] captain-asshat|14 years ago|reply
Hi Rod!

Networking didn't initially work for me but I got it going by using NAT with an Intel card; seems they included drivers for them.

[+] chaud|14 years ago|reply
Has anyone been able to make mouse integration work correctly? That is the only thing that I haven't been able to make work correctly.
[+] chaud|14 years ago|reply
Yeah, I had enable absolute pointing device unchecked. Silly answer to go with my silly question.
[+] richbradshaw|14 years ago|reply
Has anyone been able to use it in Bootcamp on a Mac?
[+] karolisd|14 years ago|reply
I was able to install it on my MacBook. But the Bootcamp CD installer doesn't load. So I guess it "worked" but I have to hard click everything with my trackpad and I can't scroll with it.

It just feels like a tablet operating system over Windows 7. The new interface is kind of stupid without a touch screen.

[+] barista|14 years ago|reply
Also it is important to do a full power shutdown, not just reboot if you are enabling virtualization in BIOS for the first time.