Virtual machine installation and running Windows 8 system Raiders

When Windows 8 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 There is also a blog dedicated to an article that is not named to accuse us of making people's popularity. This soft media is not going to be so, and the popularity itself is always good. However, fortunately, the mood can be understood, and finally everyone got the early version of Windows 8, isn't it?

So, after the leak, many friends asked in the Win8 forum, how to use, use what virtual machine to install and run Windows8 … … or, many friends know to use VirtualBox to play Win8 virtual machine, but not Know how to configure ……

I want to think about it. The first technical article about the new Windows 8 home (win8.ithome.com) is used to talk about how to install Windows 8 with a virtual machine. . 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.

I have mentioned many things in the Win7 home before. So far, the virtual machine software that supports Windows 8 installation is only the VirtualBox that Oracle acquired from Sun (this software is still open source software), now The full name is Oracle VirtualBox. The classic VMware Virtual Machine, as well as Microsoft's own Windows Virtual PC, have all been defeated. Perhaps, when Windows 8 was introduced, these virtual machine software could solve this type of problem.

If you encounter other virtual machine software, you can play Windows 8, you must remember to tell the soft media in the comments below.

I. Preparations and instructions:

1. Download VirtualBox: First download the latest version of Oracle VirtualBox. The latest version is 4.08 as of May 17, download "VirtualBox 4.0". .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 leaked version of Windows 8, then please refer to: "At this stage, we know the Windows 8 resources and related technology overview [continuously updated]".

3, install VirtualBox: If you log in Windows user name is Chinese, it may be faulty when installing VirtualBox, please refer to: "Install VirtualBox under Win7, the system can not find the specified path? "A text. The specific installation steps for VirtualBox are not explained in detail in this article. It is very simple step by step. If you don't understand, click OK to confirm ……

4. Other instructions: This article is a tutorial demonstration in 64-bit Windows 7 Simplified Chinese version, to install 64-bit Windows 8 Build 7959 as 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 and you want to play a 64-bit virtual machine, it depends on whether your CPU supports it:)

Second, start the virtual machine to install Windows 8 :

1. Click on the shortcut in the desktop or start menu, run VirtualBox, or in the Dock software (of course recommend soft media) ——

2, open In the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, click the first button on the left “New”, come out to create a new virtual computer wizard, click “Next”——

3, in this step & ldquo; virtual In the computer name and system type, enter the name you want for this virtual machine, for example: Windows 8 Build 7959 x64, the operating system is naturally Microsoft Windows, the version selects Windows 7, if you want to virtualize the 32-bit version Windows 8, then select Windows 7 in the drop-down box. Because Windows 8 is not yet officially available, there is no Windows 8 option available in VirtualBox. Here you choose Windows 7 64-bit, which is completely OK. Next, click to go to the next step.

4, in the next virtual computer (virtual machine) memory settings, 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, in this step, is to create a bootable hard disk for the virtual computer, virtual, default 20GB, enough, directly next step, of course In the future, if you can repent, you can re-set it after you create it. Come on, next step ——

6. At this time, a new hard disk creation wizard will pop up, from your physical hard disk. The virtual machine creates a hard disk, and the next step is ——

7. In the virtual hard disk type, there are two options for dynamic expansion and fixed size. It is better to choose dynamic expansion. It will not completely occupy the 20GB hard disk space you specified, but will continue to expand according to actual needs. The default is dynamic expansion, do not move, continue to the next ——

8, the next step is to specify the location and space of the virtual hard disk, it is necessary to remind everyone, if you originally put VirtualBox Installed in the C drive, it will put the files occupied by the virtual machine to the C drive by default. In this step, you can click the resource manager icon button on the right side of the location to specify the location where you store the virtual machine's hard disk file, for example, D. :/VirtualBox/under the path. 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 after I installed VirtualBox, I set the path to save the virtual machine to D:/VirtualBox/, so I will install more virtual machines in the future. You can set it at any time. This manually specifies the storage location of Win8 7959.

After the setting is completed, the next step is ——

9. This step prompts you to create a virtual hard disk for the new virtual machine. Click this button to complete the process:)

10, after the wizard window to create a virtual hard disk, go back to the previous wizard window, still click to complete ——

After completing the above steps, Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager There is more of this virtual machine with the name Windows 8 Build 7959 x64. ——

However, this is just the beginning, and the important settings work behind.

The Soft Media R&D website group is continuing to improve the IT Home website, and a later article will be published later to explain the next steps.

Continue to the following steps, in fact, in the previous two steps, the only thing to pay special attention to is to save the disk location of the Win8 virtual machine file, you can choose a place other than 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, make important settings for the newly created virtual machine:

1. Click on the newly built Windows 8 Build 7959 x64 in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager. Virtual machine, and then click the yellow icon above, "Settings", or click on the settings in the right-click menu (shortcut is Ctrl+S)——

2. Inside the settings page Mainly set up two projects, one is the system, one is the display, first switch to the system settings on the left side, there are 3 tags in the system, inside the motherboard label, we can see that the memory allocation can be adjusted here, everyone configures as follows Figure OK, the enable IO APIC in the extended feature is enabled. Of course, you can tick off the floppy disk that is not used in the startup sequence of the virtual machine. I am too lazy to move:)

3. Set the motherboard and switch to the "Processor" label. This interface, you should be able to see, here I checked two CPUs, if you are a multi-core CPU, as I set it up, of course, two CPUs are enough. In the extended properties, enable PAE/NX tick.

4, set the processor, then click to switch to the right "hardware acceleration" label, here "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" and "Enable Nested Paging" Checked.

5, then, click on the left to switch to “ display & rdquo;, memory size, recommended to 128MB, if you are nervous, 64MB is not a problem, the number of monitors below is 1 line, remember to expand In the feature, check "Enable 3D Acceleration" and "Enable 2D Video Acceleration".

This completes the setup of the new Windows 8 virtual machine.

Other networks, usbs, remote desktops, sounds, etc., are based on your own requirements, otherwise you don't have to change them.

Go to the next step!

Four, "mount" & rdquo; you download the Win8 system ISO image file, start to install Windows 8:

1, now, Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager inside point In Windows 8 Build 7959 x64, click on the big green icon above the form "Start”——

2, Windows 8 Build 7959 x64 started execution, first opened for the first time Run the wizard, say no benefit, click Next ——

3. Go to “Select the installation media> This window, the prompt is very clear, if you have already engraved and inserted it before CD (software: I guess everyone is considering burning with Rubik's Cube now), then select your CD drive in the direct media location, of course, we don't do this, we click on the "Browse" button on the right, and select the ISO&mdash we downloaded. ;—

4, after selecting the target image file, the next step, enter the summary window, click Finish, you can ——

Click Finish, then What kind of it?

Well, the virtual machine starts to restart, enter the installation interface, familiar?

Do you want to continue to talk about it? Anyway, it is the same as installing Windows 7.

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 more sentence, remember to withdraw the mouse from the virtual machine and 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.