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1. #ORACLE VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT INSTALL#
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3. #ORACLE VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT PC#
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First thing you will notice is that you don’t have a shut down option available by default. Also since I installed this in virtual environment, the performance depends on lot of other factors. As this is developer preview, don’t expect everything 100%. Once logged in I can see the Windows 8 new interface. It may take few minutes as everything needs to be setup for you. Now the computer will be prepared for your use. I entered the required detailsĬlick Next, you are done with the installation. I just selected “Don’t want to login with a windows live ID “ option and then select Local account to login. In the next step you can enter your windows live ID username, so that your account will be synched with windows 8. If you want to customize, you can click on the customize button and select the options as you wish. In the next step, you need to select settings for the PC. I named it as MyWindows8, but you can stick to your favorite names. First you need to give a name to your computer.

#ORACLE VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT LICENSE#

Now I will be presented with another license agreementĬlick on accept so that the personalization steps starts. It took around 30 minutes to complete the installation. I had selected 2 GB of RAM and I was working in an I7 processor. The installation will take some time depending on your settings.

#ORACLE VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT INSTALL#

In the next step, setup will ask you to select the partition where you need to install Windows 8. Since you are going to perform a fresh installation, you just select Custom option. In the next step, the setup will ask you the installation types. Now the setup will ask you to accept the terms and conditions. Once you click next, it will just ask you a confirmation. First it will ask you to select the language.Ĭlick Next once you selected the options that best suits you. You will see loading files window immediately as windows installation starts.

#ORACLE VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT ISO#

Virtual machine will start and boot from the ISO that you mounted. Now select the Virtual Machine and click the Start button

#ORACLE VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT 64 BIT#

Since virtual box supports 64 bit guest OS, I selected 64 bit version of the ISO.Ĭlick open once you selected the file. When you click on the icon, a popup will appear, select choose disk.

Select the storage tab.Ĭlick on the icon, this will add a CD/DVD to the virtual machine. Right click the virtual machine (Windows 8 Test), click settings. Now you need to mount the installation media so that when the machine starts it can boot from the installation media. Let me summarize what we have done till now, we have created a virtual machine and created a hard disk for it. Now you will see the new virtual machine created and is available in the list of Virtual machines. If all good, click on the Create button to create the disk. 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

#ORACLE VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT PC#

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.