On these PCs, your existing Windows 7-based applications just work. On x86 and 圆4 PCs, Windows 8 supports Windows 7 desktop applications and devices so you don’t have to compromise or give up what you’re used to. Win8 interface is designed for tablets! To get the usual desktop, you have to click on the small desktop icon. There is a horizontal slider to move the scren left to right. Once the installation is completed, Win8 looks like as follows: The Win8 dev preview is a 64-bit version only with developers tools (Windows SDK for Metro style apps, Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview).

4 – Start the virtual machine and select the virtual DVD player to launch Win8 installation.

3 – Create a virtual machine (I selected a Win7 64-bit system, with 40GB of HDD) with VirtualBox, I called it Win8Box.2 – Mount this iso on a virtual DVD player with Daemon Tools.

But I only wanted to do a quick and dirty test. Like many other developers and geeks (according to what I read on twitter yesterday), I tested the developer preview of Windows 8.

Virtualbox windows 8 64 bits