Lou, I have upgraded to V8 and it is much slicker. Also the VM's run about 10-20% quicker with a nice new control panel interface. Thoroughly recommended and up to VMwares usual high standard.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Lou Syracuse Sent: 30 September 2011 18:12 To: profox@leafe.com; profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8 http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2011/09/step-by-step-tutorial-to-setup-window s8.html As they did I used an evaluation of VMWare8 rather than the VMWare Player. I wanted to see the new version of VMWare anyway as I am not sure if I will upgrade my version 7 just yet. Besides being able to run Win8 I am not sure there is much new in it for what I use it for. One thing I had to before installing was turn off the floppy-drive in the VM. Otherwise it gives an error and won't load. Sorry, forgot what it the exact error message was... Something like ":( HAL_INITALIZATION_FAILED" if I recall correctly. After that no problems installing the 64-bit version with VS and tools. Runs pretty well on my i7-based desktop. Lol IE10 locked up on me once from within Metro which I have read other reports about, not much else to report yet as I haven't played with it much. Hopefully this weekend.. but it is my daughter's 11th birthday tomorrow... There is some sort of small patch for Win8 on MSDN, not sure what it is for yet. Lou -----Original Message----- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dan Covill Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:39 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8 On 09/30/11 07:01, Dave Crozier wrote: > Kurt, > As it is only pre Beta and NOT for production then put it into a VM. > > That's what I have done. Hi, Dave How did you accomplish that? I tried twice, and didn't succeed. First I loaded the MS Virtual PC, but discovered that it can't run 64-bit OSes. So then I installed the VMware Player, but when I tried to install the Win 8 Preview it wanted me to pick the Windows version from a droplist, which needless to say did not include Win 8! I picked Win 7 (or something), but it said that was wrong. So I forgot the whole thing, did an image backup, and just installed the Preview over my Win 7. It runs OK, but most of my main apps are missing DLL's or registry entries or both. I'll play with it for a while and then test my Backup Restore function. Dan Covill [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/003d01cc8076$6288cad0$279a6070$@co.uk ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
