Win8 on VM?

Discussion in 'sandboxing & virtualization' started by littleturle, Jul 25, 2012.

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  1. littleturle

    littleturle Registered Member

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    Anyone tried Win8 on a VM?
    Was just thinking about this.
    Not sure if it takes too much resources.
     
    littleturle, Jul 25, 2012
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  2. mirimir

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    It'll probably run better on VMware than on VirtualBox.
     
    mirimir, Jul 26, 2012
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    Actually, it works perfectly inside VirtualBox, and I don't have a high end host.
     
    Nebulus, Jul 26, 2012
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    I'm running it on VirtualBox, runs perfectly.
     
    chrisretusn, Jul 26, 2012
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  5. mirimir

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    Cool, I'll try it. I recall seeing something on Wilders about the beta being slow in VBox. And it certainly was for me. But that was months ago.
     
    mirimir, Jul 26, 2012
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  6. littleturle

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    How it is working? fine?
     
    littleturle, Jul 31, 2012
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    I haven't done it yet. Qubes is tempting me more, now ;) Really, I only run Windows so I can use Excel, and Windows 7 is just fine for that.
     
    mirimir, Jul 31, 2012
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  8. Triple Helix

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    I'm running it in VMware Workstation on a high end Laptop and it's very snappy!

    TH
     
    Triple Helix, Jul 31, 2012
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    It runs good in Vbox.
     
    DX2, Aug 1, 2012
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    It runs better on VMWare then on VirtualBox. I also had and issue with running it in VirtualBox on a machine with nVidia graphics. Don't know if the issue has been corrected or not. It ran fine on ATi/AMD.
     
    xxJackxx, Aug 1, 2012
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  11. littleturle

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    thanks... i gotta try...
    now has another spare laptop to try out different ones
     
    littleturle, Aug 14, 2012
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