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Microsoft recently released a developer preview of Windows 8. I would like to play around with it, and for play I prefer to use an a virtual image.

I attempted to deploy the x64 image in VMware Player 3.1.4. I made attempts with the Guest Operating System setting set to Windows 7 x64 and Other. Both attempts failed, complaining that the appropriate image was not detected and that msrpc.sys was missing or corrupt, respectively.

The host system is running Windows 7 x64.

How can I get Windows 8 on a VMware Player image on my system?

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I didn't have any luck with it in VMware Player, but I was able to get it installed and running in VirtualBox.

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Maybe this link will help. Steps should be similar :)

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You're going to need a relatively recent virtualization platform to do it. You also won't get the real UI experience unless you run it on a machine with a pretty recent GPU, which nearly no virtual machine will give you. Here's the official blog post for you:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/16/running-windows-8-developer-preview-in-a-virtual-environment.aspx

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