Microsoft announces Windows 8 virtual machine support or not products

Windows 8 Developer Preview (Developer Preview) was released only a few days, so many of the existing virtualization software can not support the system, the author of the first time to download the Windows 8 Developer Preview version of the "wrong" to choose the VMware Workstation 7 to install, the following blue screen appears.

Microsoft said in its official blog that some virtualization products provide only basic display drivers and cannot support high-performance graphics used in Windows 8, so the experience of installing Windows 8 on a virtual machine is significantly slower and less responsive than a direct installation on a physical machine. The installation box configuration process on the virtual machine is also very complex and error prone, especially if your machine configuration is older and more error prone.

Microsoft says that they are working with major virtualization vendors to support Windows 8 in future releases with more virtualization products. According to the Forum user Feedback report, Microsoft has given the following list:

Virtualization products that run Windows 8 normally are installed:
reinstates 8 Developer Preview version of Hyper-V;

reinstates Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V;

VMware Workstation 8.0 for Windows;

-virtualbox 4.1.2 for Windows;

Unable to install virtualized products running Windows 8 correctly:

-microsoft Virtual PC (all versions)

-microsoft Virtual Server (all versions)

reinstates 7 XP Mode

VMware Workstation 7.x or earlier

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