It is recommended to leave these as defaults.Ĭlick Next, it will show you the summary. It will ask you to name the hard disk file. I have selected Dynamically allocated space, as I don’t have any idea of what size I need.Ĭlick Next button. Here you need to choose the size of the disk. Now virtual Disk creation wizard will start. Select create new hard disk option.Ĭlick next. In the next step, you need to configure the hard disk. I chose 2 GB RamĬlick next, once you have selected memory. In this step you need to give a name for your virtual machine and select the operating system.Ĭlick next, in this step, you need to select the memory required for the virtual machine. It will bring the new virtual machine wizard welcome screenĬlick Next button. Click on the new button in the top menu to create one for windows 8 installation. It will show all available Virtual machines. Now the Virtual Box interface will open as follows I have installed virtual box in a 64 bit Windows 7.įrom Windows 7 start menu, select All Programs, under Oracle VM Virtual Box, click on the executable I have downloaded 64 bit version of windows 8. In this article I am going to install Windows 8 Developer preview in Virtual Box. From the list, Virtual Box is free and you can download it from
Microsoft Virtual Server (all versions)īe noted that Microsoft Virtual PC is not supported, as Microsoft is focusing on Hyper-V as the virtualization platform.
Īs per the article, the support for virtual implementation of Windows 8 is as follows. There is a great blog post by Steven Sinofsky who is working for Microsoft. I believe most of the developers will install the developer preview in virtual environment. (Update, Microsoft has released the consumer preview now, I shall write another article related to consumer preview, but hope steps of installation will be similar) You can download the developer preview from here.
Developer Preview is a pre-beta release of the software. Microsoft has released Developer Preview for Windows 8 a while ago.
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