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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by darklajid on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:25AM (#2995604)
> After BOIS has been configured, you need to do a reboot, shut down, wait about 10 seconds and then start up again.

Ignoring the BIOS spelling thing: What is this 10 second wait here? Magic? What do I have to say and which type of animal should I offer to the machine?

More serious: Why?

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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by crististm on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:46AM (#2995657)
This is mostly a safer version of a quick power on/off/on. Some badly designed power sources will cough when they start with charged capacitors... Ten seconds is neither enough nor too much.
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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by jinushaun on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @04:29PM (#2997750)
Got Win8 installed on VirtualBox just fine on my Dell laptop, but network adapters didn't work for me. So no internet. :(

I went with the virtual hard drive technique (http://hnsl.mn/win8vhd) instead and it worked perfectly. I'm now dual booting Win8 and Win7. :)

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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by sciurus on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:09AM (#2996528)
No luck for me with the 64-bit build in VMware Fusion 3.1.3. I hear it runs on VMware Fusion 4 though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996520
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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by blueplz on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:35AM (#2995267)
I'm trying the 32 bit developer preview on Virtual Box 4.0.12 with Host as a WinXpSP3 system. Even with the above settings I keep getting a "computer needs to restart" error. Anyone faced/solved this issue?
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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by blueplz on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @05:40AM (#2995519)
Never mind. I hadn't turned on virtualization in my BIOS. Its working now.
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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by est on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:46AM (#2995162)
Does anyone know how to enable IO APIC on VMWare?

My attempt to install Win8 DP only gets a "HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED" error in the setup screen.

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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by captain-asshat on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:41AM (#2995152)
Hi Rod!

Networking didn't initially work for me but I got it going by using NAT with an Intel card; seems they included drivers for them.

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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by chaud on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @08:22AM (#2995930)
Has anyone been able to make mouse integration work correctly? That is the only thing that I haven't been able to make work correctly.
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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by chaud on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:50AM (#2996691)
Yeah, I had enable absolute pointing device unchecked. Silly answer to go with my silly question.
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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by richbradshaw on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:59AM (#2995191)
Has anyone been able to use it in Bootcamp on a Mac?
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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by karolisd on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:13AM (#2995218)
I was able to install it on my MacBook. But the Bootcamp CD installer doesn't load. So I guess it "worked" but I have to hard click everything with my trackpad and I can't scroll with it.

It just feels like a tablet operating system over Windows 7. The new interface is kind of stupid without a touch screen.

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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by barista on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @04:35AM (#2995377)
Also it is important to do a full power shutdown, not just reboot if you are enabling virtualization in BIOS for the first time.
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