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VMWare - Windows 8?
03-06-2012 11:36 PM
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I've just been trying to install W8 into VMWare as a virtual machine. It doesn't even start and just reboots continually.
Any ideas anyone?
Any ideas anyone?
I need a new signature... i'm bored of the old one!
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Re: VMWare - Windows 8?
05-06-2012 9:02 AM
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Tried to install it in VMWare without sucess - then found somewhere a brief note on the VMWare site saying "not supported". It does load in Virtual Box - runs like a dog on my system (3GHz Pentium D 4GB memory Win 7 64 bit) though. I am not impressed with it. Particularly annoyed at one Microsoft comment last month saying "the only people who won't like it are those who work in offices" - that would be about 70% of their current user base then.
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05-06-2012 9:08 AM
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Here's a video that might help http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2012/03/windows-8-consumer-preview-running-in-workstation-8.html
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Re: VMWare - Windows 8?
05-06-2012 10:43 AM
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Quote from: mossgrove runs like a dog on my system (3GHz Pentium D 4GB memory Win 7 64 bit) though. I am not impressed with it. Particularly annoyed at one Microsoft comment last month saying "the only people who won't like it are those who work in offices" - that would be about 70% of their current user base then.
My test system is a 3GHz Pentium D and it's very fast on that in "native" 64-bit mode.
Offices will (as I think I've said in another thread) stick to W7 for at least 10 years - once they've moved off XP. They'll ignore this.
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24-06-2012 4:03 PM
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I have it running fine on virtual box which runs on my core i5/16GB machine. The metro GUI is dreadful though, I really don't want to go through this sort of forced re-education. I know you can switch to a sort of W7 desktop but why oh why?
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