It will bring up the traditional desktop like earlier windows versions. Then click on Desktop image in the Start page.
#WINDOWS 8.1 HOW TO INSTALL VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS 8.1 INSTALL#
To install the guest additions simple click Devices > Install Guest Additions in the virtualbox window. Look out for a big button named "Desktop" click it would take to the old desktop.Īfter the windows installation process completes and it boots to the Start page, the next important thing to do is to install the guest additions for better performance like proper screen resolution, copy pasting across guest and host etc. After that, it should boot up and the Metro Start screen should come up. The entire installation and configuration process would take around 45 minutes or so. It would boot up like previous windows versions and installation process is same like before. Select your iso and start the boot process. It will popup a dialog asking for the windows disk/iso. Once the device is ready, start it from virtualbox manager window.
Start the virtual drive and give it the windows 8 iso Instead having a fixed size disk would take some time to create, but the processes later on go fine. Dynamically sized disk would create a small sized initial disk but would keep expanding the size during the installation of windows, making the install process slower. Version : Windows 8 or Windows 8 64bit (depending on your windows iso)
Launch Virtualbox and create a New virtualdevice with the following configurations.
So make sure you have enough hardware resources. We are going to give windows around 2GB of ram along with 25gb of disk space for the installation. So for this you are going to need your windows 8 iso along with the latest version of Virtualbox ( 4.2.6 currently ) installed on your host system.Īlso make sure that you have plenty of RAM and hard disk space along with cpu cores to do this.
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