Comments on: Install & Run Windows 8 in a Virtual Machine Using VMWare in Mac OS X

By: Pkzip

Pkzip — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:16:29 +0000

Windows 8 requires drivers to install on VMware Fusion and Win8 media does not provide those.
Good luck installing!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:37:00 +0000

When I try this it wants an activation code before Windows will install. Anyone else?
Anyone have such a code?

By: benson

benson — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:43:18 +0000

Does the consumer preview come with anti-virus?

By: Darrell Bowles

Darrell Bowles — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:09:47 +0000

Update: Just tried it again, and it tells me that vmwhare fusion can not determine the operating system.

By: Darrell Bowles

Darrell Bowles — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:36:05 +0000

Okay, I have followed all the instructions, but when I go to select windows 7 double prime in the os selection, it does not appear there. What is wrong?

By: User

User — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:22:44 +0000

I installed it no prob with parallel 7, but can’t open any of the applications, in metro mode.

By: ParSalian

ParSalian — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:33:41 +0000

You should check if the ISO image file was downloaded correctly. I had the same problem until I realized the download was incomplete. Chrome did not advised me that a file larger than 2Gb would have problems… in fact, first time I thought connecton issue, let’s redownload (hey, this is Spain); but second time I looked forward to know if there was any problem with my ISP, then somebody told me about a chrome issue. 3rd download (IE 9) was ok, and i was able to install (no missing cd driver… hey microsoft, you’re installing from a cd…)

Full size of my ISO (downloaded this morning from microsoft) is 2,82 GB (3.033.585.664 bytes), and md5 is 9B7798438FA694ECFA465C93A4C23C97

By: Will

Will — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:07:48 +0000

Just delete the VMWare image you created when you set it up, the default location should be in your user home directory unless you specified otherwise.

By: loieboy

loieboy — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:51:01 +0000

How do you remove Windows 8 and VMWare on Mac? Just installed everything, had a wee play around with it and stuff. Not much use. It’s rather crap without touchscreen.

So yeah, any ideas of how to remove all of this so I can get my what, 20 gigs or something of data storage.

Thank you very much.

By: ed

ed — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:49:02 +0000

Installed 64-bit on the latest VMware Fusion. No problem so far except that it is Windows. By the way, peaked? Not piqued? :]

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How to Install & Run Windows 8 in VirtualBox — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:15:25 +0000

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By: Heka

Heka — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:41:07 +0000

Windows Developer Preview 64bit installed with no issue on Lion OS X with Parallels 7, free for 15 days, using MBP 13 mid 2010.

However, after 1h of usage I decided to use a dedicated PC as the virtual graphics card was a bit too slow (did not bother too much figuring out if Parallels supplied a specific driver for the video card).

By: angileri

angileri — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:19:11 +0000

I get the same issues. I can load it on Fusion 4.x and it runs fine but will not do full screen.

As soon as I install VMware tools and reboot, I get the black screen after loging in.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:27:15 +0000

I installed the Tools on mine but I did upgrade to Fusion V4. Are you perchance running V3?

By: Dangler69

Dangler69 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:30:12 +0000

Try Oracle virtual box. It worked like a charm