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Running the Windows 8 Developer Preview on Microsoft Virtualization

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Just over a week ago – we posted some details on how to run the Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (read all about it here: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/16/running-windows-8-developer-preview-in-a-virtual-environment.aspx).

I have been getting a lot of questions and information here – so I wanted to follow up with some details:

  • While the Windows 8 Developer Preview does run under Hyper-V – there is a known problem with running the Windows 8 Developer Preview on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2.  If you are doing this / are planning to do this you should have a look at this hotfix: https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2526776
  • In the above article we stated that the Windows 8 Developer Preview does not work under Virtual PC / Virtual Server.  A lot of people have been asking me if there is some unofficial tweak / hack that can be used to make this work – but the answer is a definitive “no”.  Sorry, but there is nothing more to say there.

Cheers,
Ben

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  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2011
    The article you linked to describes a hotfix, but does not provide a download link. Is there somewhere to download it?

  • Anonymous
    October 04, 2011
    Although it gave me a lot of issues I was able to install it as a VirtualBox image.

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2012
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