[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on VMware Workstation 8

  1:24 PM    Santosh

Microsoft yesterday launched the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for x86 PCs during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And as with all moves to capture the tech industry’s attention, timing is everything. There is huge difference in Windows developer preview and Customer preview. As per Micrososft they have changed more than 100,000 lines of code for Customer preview.
[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on Oracle VirtualBox
As with any pre-release software, Microsoft cautions that users may encounter bugs and incompatibilities. Recommended specs, as provided by Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's President of Windows and Windows Live, are as follows:1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driverThe Windows 8 Customer preview is currently available as a free download at preview.windows.comYou can test & get a view of Windows 8 customer preview on your machines by using Vmware Workstation 8. Below steps covers step by step process to successfully install the Windows 8 customer preview on Vmware workstation 8.





 

If you get error message like "Vmware Workstation 8 Windows Cannot Read the settings from the unattend answer file" then refer below guide to resolve it.. Just need to remove Floppy Drive from the Windows 8 Virtual machine settings.
http://mytricks.in/vmware-workstation-8-windows-cannot/








  

Windows 8 Customer Preview HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

  1:03 PM    Santosh


While installing the recently released Windows 8 Customer Preview in VMware ESX Server 5.0, I got the error message HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED. The error message suggested me to restart the PC and try again. I did so but still faced the problem. 
Detailed error message was,

Your Computer ran into a problem and needs to restart.
If you like to know more, you can search online later for this code:-HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
It's collecting error info and will restart in: 0 seconds


The same issue I faced with Windows 8 developer preview, still its not working with VMware ESX server.. So resolution for above error is to wait for latest release of VMware ESX server OR install Windows 8 customer preview on VMware Workstation 8 or VirtualBox 4.1.8


Check below guides for installtion instructions..
[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on Oracle VirtualBox

  

[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on VMware Workstation 8

  12:54 PM    Santosh

Microsoft yesterday launched the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for x86 PCs during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And as with all moves to capture the tech industry’s attention, timing is everything. There is huge difference in Windows developer preview and Customer preview. As per Micrososft they have changed more than 100,000 lines of code for Customer preview.
[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on Oracle VirtualBox
As with any pre-release software, Microsoft cautions that users may encounter bugs and incompatibilities. Recommended specs, as provided by Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's President of Windows and Windows Live, are as follows:

1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

The Windows 8 Customer preview is currently available as a free download at preview.windows.com

You can test & get a view of Windows 8 customer preview on your machines by using Vmware Workstation 8. Below steps covers step by step process to successfully install the Windows 8 customer preview on Vmware workstation 8.




 
If you get error message like "Vmware Workstation 8 Windows Cannot Read the settings from the unattend answer file" then refer below guide to resolve it.. Just need to remove Floppy Drive from the Windows 8 Virtual machine settings.
http://www.mytricks.in/2011/09/vmware-workstation-8-windows-cannot.html







  

[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on Oracle VirtualBox

  11:56 AM    Santosh

Microsoft yesterday launched the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for x86 PCs during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And as with all moves to capture the tech industry’s attention, timing is everything. There is huge difference in Windows developer preview and Customer preview. As per Micrososft they have changed more than 100,000 lines of code for Customer preview.
[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on VMware Workstation 8
As with any pre-release software, Microsoft cautions that users may encounter bugs and incompatibilities. Recommended specs, as provided by Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's President of Windows and Windows Live, are as follows:


1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver


The Windows 8 Customer preview is currently available as a free download at preview.windows.com


You can test & get a view of Windows 8 customer preview on your machines by using free VirtualBox. Below steps covers step by step process to successfully install the Windows 8 customer preview on VirtualBox. 


1. First you need to download & install VirtualBox 4.1.8.
2 . Download Windows 8 Customer Preview ISO


Open VirtualBox & click on NEW.

Enter Virtual Machine Name & Click Next.

Assign it a 4GB of RAM (more or less as per you)

Select “Create new hard disk” and make sure “Start-up Disk” is checked

select the native “VDI” format for VirtualBox

Select “Dynamically allocated” option & click next

Give it enough hard drive space for your own needs,

Create the new Virtual Disk. 

And Go ahead power on the new VM.

Click “next”

Specify ISO location & Click “next”

Click on Start to power On the VM.

Follow below steps to install Windows 8.




And here you are..

  

[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on Oracle VirtualBox

  11:26 AM    Santosh

Microsoft yesterday launched the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for x86 PCs during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And as with all moves to capture the tech industry’s attention, timing is everything. There is huge difference in Windows developer preview and Customer preview. As per Micrososft they have changed more than 100,000 lines of code for Customer preview.
[Guide] Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview on VMware Workstation 8
As with any pre-release software, Microsoft cautions that users may encounter bugs and incompatibilities. Recommended specs, as provided by Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's President of Windows and Windows Live, are as follows:


1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver


The Windows 8 Customer preview is currently available as a free download at preview.windows.com


You can test & get a view of Windows 8 customer preview on your machines by using free VirtualBox. Below steps covers step by step process to successfully install the Windows 8 customer preview on VirtualBox. 


1. First you need to download & install VirtualBox 4.1.8.
2 . Download Windows 8 Customer Preview ISO


Open VirtualBox & click on NEW.
Enter Virtual Machine Name & Click Next.
Assign it a 4GB of RAM (more or less as per you)
Select “Create new hard disk” and make sure “Start-up Disk” is checked
select the native “VDI” format for VirtualBox
Select “Dynamically allocated” option & click next
Give it enough hard drive space for your own needs,
Create the new Virtual Disk. 
And Go ahead power on the new VM.
Click “next”
Specify ISO location & Click “next”
Click on Start to power On the VM.
Follow below steps to install Windows 8.


And here you are..

  

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