![]() ![]() Secondly, you need to make sure your computer can support Windows 8. Both 32-bit and 64-bit machines are supported. At the time of this writing, VirtualBox is available for all three major operating systems: Windows, OS X, and Linux. There are two things you need to confirm before you try to install Windows 8 on VirtualBox.įirst and foremost you need to make sure VirtualBox is supported on your computer. Plus uninstalling/removing/deleting Windows 8 on VirtualBox is very easy with no virtual side effects. All your data and files are safe since Windows 8 doesn’t touch your main partition and any bugs in Windows 8 will not crash your (real) machine. By installing Windows 8 on VirtualBox you are, in effect, sandboxing it from your computer. VirtualBox is a virtualization program, as I am sure most - if not all - of you know. Well, don’t worry - you can give Windows 8 a whirl without having to install it on your computer, per se: You can install Windows 8 virtually on VirtualBox. I am sure there are many dotTechies out there that are dying to give Windows 8 a …preview… but don’t want to install it on their main workhorses. ![]() Recently Microsoft has released preview versions of Windows 8 including Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview, pre-Beta releases of Windows 8 designed to give consumers and developers a preview of Microsoft’s next installment of Windows. ![]()
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