With all the interest in the new OS microsoft is working on, I thought I would give it a try. Considering it is still in Dev Preview, I decided to go the VM route instead of a dual boot. I used VirtualBox for the vm. It plays very well with Windows 8.
You need to tweak a few VirtualBox VM settings:
- In VirtualBox, choose Windows 8 as the type. nice.
- System > Processors enable PAE/NX.
- Display > Video move the video memory to 128MB (the max) and then enable both 3D and 2D acceleration.
Now mount the Windows 8 Developer Preview from ISO.
Get the ISO here. There is a separate one with developer tools (VS2011 and Blend 5 and sample Metro Apps) too.
Run the VM and follow along with installation instructions. The Win8 installation took around 11 minutes, and no glitches. nice. No touch here, but still nice to see the metro interface.
you will see by default that the VM window does not auto-adjust the resolution to match your desktop resolution. There is an easy way to force the resolution to match your desktop. Take a look at how it is done here.
Hostkey+F lets you run full screen. Now things are looking really good.
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