How can I run a Virtual Machine in Windows 8 Developer Preview?
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Mar 15, 2026964 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Since having issues installing Ubuntu side-by-side with Windows 8, I thought I'd try running Ubuntu in a VM instead. However, VMWare player has no love for Windows 8 yet (invalid VM86 or something similar), and AFAIK the promised hypervisor options are not currently available for playing with. So: …
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As per todda.speot.is's comments, VirtualBox seems to be my best option here. In many cases, enabling Hyper-V on the dev-8 might be even more direct, but in my case my CPU does not support that. I now have a working Ubuntu install as a VM.
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