If you’re familiar with installing Windows operating systems in the past, you’ll feel right at home in Windows 8’s installation system. Once you finish going through this tutorial, you should now be ready to install Windows 8 in your virtual machine. Windows 7 VMware tools should work on Windows 8 just fine.
Step 3: On the operating system selection screen that should show up afterwards, just select "Windows 7", since no Windows 8 option is available at this time. From the wizard that should pop up, select "Continue without a disc". Step 2: Since this version of Windows 8 isn’t available on DVD yet (unless you decide to burn the image, which feel is a waste of time), we’re ignoring VMware’s almost exclusive reliance on physical discs and pointing it to our Windows 8 image instead. Step 1: Fire up VMware Fusion and click on "Install Windows or another operating system in a new virtual machine". if you have an older Mac with less RAM and a slower processor consider exiting out of other applications before moving on. Once you’ve obtained everything mentioned above, it’s time to begin your installation. VirtualBox is a good freeware alternative, but since it doesn’t offer quite as good graphics acceleration support, we’re leaving this one out. Windows users can use free VMware Player product from here. A good virtualization tool such as VMware Fusion (get a 30-day free trial from here).
We won’t provide a direct download link here since Windows 8 isn’t available officially to public yet. At the time of this writing, the newest build is 7989.
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