Step 4: You must now allocate RAM for your virtual OS. Step 3: Name your Virtual OS and select Microsoft Windows as the Operating System type and Windows 7 as the version from the drop down list. Launch New Virtual Machine wizard by clicking the New button on the main window. Step 2: After a successful installation run the VirtualBox using the desktop icon that was created at the time of installation. Installing it is no rocket science and will take a couple of minutes to complete once you agree with all the permissions. Step 1: Download and install VirtualBox on your computer. This is not necessary but as it’s a bit tedious process you might want to sit with a cup of coffee.A minimum of 20 GB free hard disk space to spare.Download Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO.This tool checks if your computer processor supports HAV and if this setting is enabled. If you are not sure about that download Microsoft Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool. Please make sure your computer supports hardware virtualization.You can have a look at my system snapshot which I took using Speccy. I have tested this on my Lenovo Y500 4EQ laptop. If you are not sure how to install and run Windows 8 as a virtual machine here is a complete guide for you. If you don’t want to go for a clean install you can install it on VirtualBox and run the new OS within your existing operating system. You should subscribe to it because we’ll be adding many more cool videos to the channel in the days ahead.Ĭurrently there are some issues with dual booting of Windows 8 and thus a clean installation is recommended. This article also includes a video walkthrough at the end, and with that we are launching our Youtube channel.
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