It works in VMWare Workstation 8 (which is out of beta - released two days ago) Also runs in Hyper-V R2
Dunno about others - I had the same issue with VMWare Workstation 7, but didn't spend time to work out what was wrong. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Matt Siebert Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 12:25 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 I tried the x64 edition on VMware Workstation 7 yesterday but got about 30 seconds in and it had some catastrophic failure. I googled and it seems that your only options for virtualising it is Hyper-V, VMware Workstation 8 (apparently in beta), or there are some tutorials somewhere for getting it working with VirtualBox. I didn't have time so gave up but would be interested if you can get it working with VMware. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Winston Pang <winstonp...@gmail.com<mailto:winstonp...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ah, nice, thanks Ken, I was using virtual box, but it crapped itself. So I thought it was across the board. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com<mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com>> wrote: Applications like VMWare Workstation will let you run 64bit VMs even if the host OS is 32bit Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of Winston Pang Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 Man it totally sucks. I wanted to install x64 on a VM but forgot that my current install of windows is 32bit, so it wont run the Windows 8 x64 version, which is the only version that has the VS2011 express dev tools, GAHHHHHHH And that link requires MSDN subscription only. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com<mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: Please also play around with the developer tools, I'd suggest downloading the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/09/14/announcing-visual-studio-11-developer-preview.aspx) over the Express edition. One thing you should be aware of is that we only have a certain amount of time to react to feedback before the Beta - so please, please tell us what you think. Although Windows 8 seems to be getting the most attention, if you use TFS, there's a bunch of goodness in this release which I've been dogfooding for the past 6 months; Agile tools to manage stories and tasks, My Work which is basically a Pending changes on steroids, and a new built-in Code Review tool. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:23 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 I installed it on my Asus eee slate last night. First attempt left me in an endless boot loop telling me there was a problem. Maybe it was because I installed it in a pub? Backed up hard drive and formatted it, installing from scratch. Went much better second time. It makes my slate so much nicer to use. Windows 7 was not fantastic for touch input. Windows 8 makes it so much nicer. It gives my slate two modes of use, walk around the house, drive with finger mode (classic tablet) and then keyboard and mouse (bluetooth) to do any desktop stuff. Really fast to shutdown and start up. Its like less than 5 seconds to get to the login screen. Unfortunately my slate has an problem where it just powers off randomly. Hardware issue, it started doing it a week ago and is still doing it. need to send it back for repair :( On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:18 AM, William Luu <will....@gmail.com<mailto:will....@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks David. That's one of the better summaries I've read thus far. On 16 September 2011 01:12, David Burela <david.bur...@gmail.com<mailto:david.bur...@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion around this on the mailing list yet. I've got some notes about the day 1 & day 2 keynotes http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/build-keynote-day-1metro-experience-with-jupiter-xaml-and-html5js/ http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/build-keynote-day-2windows-server-8-and-developer-tools/ Some quick thoughts: Development The new functionality for the immersive apps is cool. The "charms" that allow you to share data between applications (edit an image in an image editor, then have another app directly upload it to twitter) is cool. User account syncing across desktops is also interesting. Syncing combined with the "Credential locker" allows a user to log in to an app on one computer (e.g. using Facebook or Google credentials to log in via the Azure ACS), the credentials are saved in the locker and synced to their other computers. So later if they pick up a tablet and launch the app, they will just be logged in straight away. and it only takes ~3 lines of code. as a desktop The new tile start screen is cool. and the new immersive apps in the metro themed style is cool However I am finding it really frustrating to use it as a general Operating System, as I keep getting mentally confused between the 2 different contexts (Tile interface, classic desktop). I keep hitting start to bring up my list of programs, but that takes you back to the tiles. I also don't see how my traditional multi monitor setup with multitasking is going to work in this world of new "immersive" style apps. Reading a webpage in the chromeless immersive app and then trying to chat with someone on MSN, is a jarring experience. -David Burela
