Step 2: Enter the Windows 8 product key to continue. Step 1: Select your default language, currency and keyboard format and click on the button Install Now. You can now install Windows 8 as you would normally install it on any system. If everything went as it should, you will see the Windows 8 setup screen within no time. Click on the Go button to power on your virtual box. Step 7: Navigate to the Storage section in the settings window and choose the ISO file of Windows 8 consumer preview that you have downloaded on your system, as your virtual box CD/DVD drive. Right-click on the box we just created and click on Settings. Once the virtual box has been created you will see it in the list of all the available virtual boxes on your system. Step 6: Finish the wizard to configure your virtual box. Step 5: Now create a Dynamically Allocated VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) and continue. As per the recommendation, create a new 20 GB startup disk (you can vary it according to your needs and the free hard disk space available) and continue. Step 4: Now select the amount of RAM you would like to allocate to the new virtual box and proceed to create a fresh startup disk. As you are installing a build of Windows 8, that’s what you’ll need to select. Step 3: After starting the wizard you will be prompted to enter an alias name for your new OS and select the OS Type. Click on the New button to start the virtual box creation. This is how the home screen of the application will look like. Step 2: After successful installation run VirtualBox on your computer. The program is free to use, and the installation is as simple as any other windows based application.

Step 1: Download and install VirtualBox on your system. Quick Tip: We’ve previously covered how you can use VirtualBox to install Windows 7 inside Mac OS X. We will start with configuring the Virtual Box settings and then install Windows 8 in the virtual environment. In this post we will show you how to use VirtualBox, the free virtualization tool, for installing Windows 8 consumer preview inside Windows 7. Those with less than 2 GB of RAM should probably abstain from installing Windows 8 inside Windows 7 for the time being. To try Windows 8 in a virtual desktop, make sure your computer is bestowed with a good hardware configuration as running two operating systems in parallel can take up pretty much all the juice you have in your system. As the build is still in consumer preview, I prefer we test it in a virtual playground first (unless you are geek who knows what he’s doing).

Though you can install Windows 8 above any other operating system that you are currently using, I don’t think that’s a good idea.

As the consumer preview is available for free to everyone, you can download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO files (.iso) files from the Windows official website. Microsoft launched the Consumer Preview of their upcoming new operating system Windows 8 yesterday.

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