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How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

February 1, 2018 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

Installing Windows Server 8 Beta on VMware Workstation 8? Let’s start!

Below are the screen shots that walk you through the process of installing Windows Server 8 Beta on VMware Workstation 8. I have notated the most important things to notice.

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

 

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

Take note, I choose Windows 7, NOT Windows 7 64-bit. I’m not sure it matters, but I believe this will work best for you.

The download is pre-licenses, so you don’t have to enter anything here. However, this will cause problems later if you don’t disconnect the floppy – more on this later.

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

Click Customize Hardware

Choose the processor that matches your host and enable Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT (your processor must support this) if you want to run the Hyper-V role on this server. See my earlier blog post on how to make that happen.

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

Make sure you unselect “Power on this virtual machine after creation”, we need to edit one more thing before we continue.

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

After you create the VM, go back in and disconnect the Floppy, otherwise the install will fail because the autoinst.flp is missing the product key.

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

 

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

 

 

 

A long while later after a few reboots…

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

How To Install Windows Server 8 Beta On VMware Workstation 8

You are now ready to use Windows Server 8 Beta! I have not installed the VMware tools yet, but I’ll probably try later. If you try it let me know what you think.

Reproduced with permission from https://clusteringformeremortals.com/2012/03/01/how-to-install-windows-server-8-beta-on-vmware-workstation-8/

Filed Under: Clustering Simplified Tagged With: installation, preview, VMware, VMware Workstation 8, Windows Server 8 Beta

Windows Server 8 Developer Preview Do Not Support Hyper-V Role While…

February 1, 2018 by Jason Aw Leave a Comment

… Running On VMware Workstation (At Least On My Laptop)

Unless someone knows a trick that I don’t, it doesn’t appear as if I will be able to test out some of the Hyper-V clustering features unless I identify actual hardware for Windows Server 8. I hoped VMware Workstation 8 would be able to fool Windows 8 into thinking it was actually a physical server, but so far no dice. This article appears to indicate it will work on an Intel Nehalem or Intel Core i7 processor, but my two year old Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 doesn’t seem to be able to do the trick.

I added the hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = “FALSE” to the config file and I changed the CPU settings to use Intel VT –x/EPT as shown below.

Windows Server 8 Developer Preview Will Not Support The Hyper-V Role While...

But when I try to enable the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 8…

Windows Server 8 Developer Preview Will Not Support The Hyper-V Role While...

Maybe it is time for a new laptop?

Reproduced with permission from https://clusteringformeremortals.com/2011/09/17/windows-server-8-developer-preview-will-not-support-the-hyper-v-role-while-running-on-vmware-workstation%E2%80%A6at-least-on-my-laptop/

Filed Under: Clustering Simplified Tagged With: Clustering, Hyper V, VMware, VMware Workstation 8, Windows Server 8

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