Before Windows8 leaked, we sent an article to inform, but unfortunately the foreigner delayed more than 10 days before the leak, resulting in many people on the Internet said that the soft media is hyping, and even have a blog Specially issued an article that is not named to accuse us of earning popularity, this soft media is not so done, and the popularity itself is always good. However, fortunately, the mood can be understood, finally everyone got the early version of Windows8, isn't it?
Then, after the leak, there will be a lot of friends in Win8 forum to ask, How, what a virtual machine to install or run Windows8 ......, many of my friends knows how to play Win8 VirtualBox virtual machine, but do not know how to configure ......
After much deliberation, the new Windows8 house (Win8.ithome.com) opened the first technical articles, we used to talk about how to use virtual machine installation Windows8 it. Friends who are good at virtual machines can skip this article, or, in the comments below this article, help answer some of the new questions not covered in this article.
before and everyone mentioned in many of the home Win7, date, support for VirtualBox (software or open source software) Windows8 installed virtual machine software from Oracle's acquisition of Sun at only come, and now the whole The name is OracleVirtualBox. The classic VMware VirtualMachine, as well as Microsoft's own Windows VirtualPC, have all been defeated. Perhaps, when Windows 8 was introduced, these virtual machine software could solve such problems.
If you encounter other virtual machine software can be Fun Windows8, must remember to comment below this article which tells soft media.
a preparation for work and Description:
1, download VirtualBox: First to download the latest version of OracleVirtualBox, as of the latest version of May 17 was 4.08, download see "VirtualBox4.0.8 Released, the only virtual machine that can run Win8", this is a multi-language version, including Simplified Chinese.
2, download Win8: If you have not downloaded any leaks version Windows8, then see: "At this stage known Windows8 resources and related technologies Overview [updated]."
3, install VirtualBox: If your Windows login user name is Chinese, failure may occur when you install VirtualBox, see: "Installing VirtualBox, the system can not find the path specified under Win7? "A text. The specific installation steps of VirtualBox, this article does not elaborate, step by step is very simple. Do not know where to click OK ......
4, Other: This article is tutorial shows at 64 Windows7 Simplified Chinese version, to install the 64-bit Windows8Build7959 an example (6.2.7959.0.fbl_srv_wdacXML.110307 -1930_amd64fre_server-enterprise_en-us.iso), of course, you can also install a 32-bit virtual machine system under 64 bits. If your computer is a 32-bit operating system, you want to play 64-bit virtual machine, that depends on whether your CPU supports :)
Second, start the virtual machine installation Windows8:
1, click the shortcut, VirtualBox runs on the desktop or the start menu inside, or in the Dock class software (of course, recommend soft media cool points) inside -
2, in the open OracleVMVirtualBoxManager inside, first click on the left "New" button, out of the New virtual computer Wizard, click "Next" -
3, in this step the "virtual computer name and system type" window inside, you enter from the name for this virtual machine, For example: Windows8Build7959x64, the operating system is naturally Microsoft Windows, the version chooses Windows7, if you want to virtualize the 32-bit version of Windows8, then select Windows7 in the drop-down box. Because Windows8 is not yet officially available, there is no Windows 8 option available in VirtualBox. Here you choose Windows764, which is completely OK. Next, click to go to the next step.
4, the next virtual machine (VM) set inside the memory, to select 1024MB. The example computer is 16G physical memory. Of course, you can set the default 512MB memory according to your computer's situation. If you are 2G or 4G memory or above, it is recommended to set it to 1024M memory. Then click Next -
5, which in this step is to create a bootable disk for the virtual machine, virtual, default 20GB, enough, you can direct the next step, of course, if later you can also go back later to re-create a complete set, come on, the next step -
6, this time, will pop up a new hard disk creation wizard to create a virtual machine from your physical hard disk inside hard disk, the next line -
7, in this type of virtual hard disk step inside, and the dynamic expansion of fixed-size two options, select the dynamic expansion of the better, this is actually not completely occupy you specify For example, 20GB of hard disk space, but constantly expanding according to actual needs. The default is the dynamic expansion, do not move, continue to the next step -
8, the next step is to specify the location and the virtual hard disk space, here it is necessary to remind you, if you had installed the VirtualBox C drive, it will put the file occupied by the virtual machine to the C drive by default, and in this step, you can click the resource manager icon button on the right side of the position to specify the location where you store the virtual machine hard disk file, for example D:/Under VirtualBox/etc. After installing Win8 or Win7, the virtual machine file may reach more than 10 G, so this step depends on your hard disk space.
because I, after I installed VirtualBox, it is set to save the virtual machine path is D: /VirtualBox /, more so after the installation of virtual machines will be placed here, you can always set it in This manually specifies the storage location of Win87959. After
setting is completed, the next step can -
9, this step is suggesting you a new virtual machine virtual hard disk is created, this step is complete you can click on:)
10, create a virtual hard disk wizard window is complete, return to the previous wizard window, click Finish to still -
after completing the above steps, OracleVMVirtualBoxManager the inside you specify more than this Windows8Build7959x64 name of virtual machines -
However, this is only just beginning, it is important to set work later.
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continue with the following steps, in fact, in the previous two steps inside, the only pay special attention to is that to save disk location Win8 virtual machine files, you can choose a place outside of the C drive, and if your computer's physical memory Large enough, you can set the virtual machine's memory to 1G, which is 1024MB.
Third, the new virtual machine to do important settings:
1, in OracleVMVirtualBoxManager click inside just completed under the Windows8Build7959x64 virtual machine, and then point at the top of the yellow icon, "Settings" , or right-click inside the settings menu can also be (shortcut key is Ctrl + S) -
2, in which out of the settings page, set up mainly to two projects, one system, one is displayed first Switch to the system settings on the left, there are 3 tags in the system, inside the motherboard label, you can see that you can adjust the memory allocation here, you can configure the following picture, the enable feature inside the IOAPIC is enabled. Of course, we can put the boot order of virtual machines inside less than the floppy disk ticked off, I just laziness :)
3, set up the motherboard, and then switch to the "processor" tab in the interface You should be able to see that I have checked two CPUs here. If you are a multi-core CPU, you can set it up like this. Of course, two CPUs are enough. In the extended properties, enable PAE/NX tick.
4, set up the processor, and then click to switch to the right of the "hardware acceleration" tab, here's the "Enable VT-x /AMD-V" and "Enable NestedPaging" are checked.
5, then left click on the switch to the "show", memory size, the recommended setting to 128MB, if you are nervous, 64MB is not a problem, the number of monitors on a line below, and remember which extended features , check "Enable 3D Acceleration" and "Enable 2D Video Acceleration".
so, basically completed the setup of a new Windows8 virtual machine.
other network, usb, remote desktop, what sound according to your own requirements go and get the line, otherwise they do not change the.
the next step!
Fourth, the "hook" you downloaded Win8 system ISO image file to start the installation Windows8:
1, now, OracleVMVirtualBoxManager which point Windows8Build7959x64, click on the big green form above icon "start" -
2, Windows8Build7959x64 started, first opened is welcome to use the first run Wizard, say no good, click Next -
3, to carry out the "selection "Installation media" window, the prompt is very clear, if you have been interested in the excavation and inserted the CD (soft advertising: I guess everyone is considering burning with Rubik's cube now), then select your CD drive in the direct media location, of course, we do not do that, we click on the right of the "Browse" button, locate choose our download ISO--
4, choose a good target image file, the next step, go to the summary window, click Finish, you can - and after
click Finish, then how do?
ah, began to restart the virtual machine, enter the installation interface, be familiar with it?
the following do you still want to continue to go on? Anyway, it is the same as installing Windows7! What
? Haven't installed the English version? Still have to say? Well, if you win, say two more words. In the installation interface, the language is naturally unchanged. In the second time zone, Chinese [SimplifIEd, PRC] is the Simplified Chinese (People's Republic of China).
If you add one, then, is to remember, from the virtual machine to withdraw inside the mouse, you can press the Ctrl key on the right side of the keyboard. This right Ctrl allows you to switch between the current system and the virtual machine, which everyone knows.