Mr Snrub Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Announcement:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/May12/05-31Windows8RPPR.aspxRelease Preview page:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview(Note the small link if you want to go to select an ISO instead) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 (edited) Performance under Virtualbox sucks a bit. IE crashes all the time. I'm installing the VS2012RC now.ADK setup crashes all the time...Visual Studio 2012 setup also crashes Edited May 31, 2012 by MagicAndre1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 (edited) Anybody else seeing this when booting from the ISO on VirtualBox...?SHA1 hash matches.Google gives no results yet. Edited June 1, 2012 by -X- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Snrub Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 From bugcodes.h:0x5D == UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSORInstalled Win8 RP x86 and x64 versions from the ISOs in Hyper-V VMs without a problem.I guess VirtualBox needs an update for its emulated processor type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Windows 8 needs a CPU with PAE/NX Bit and VT enabled and your CPU needs SSE2 support. Otherwise it won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 (edited) I guess I'm SOL. I have all the required features or so I think. It's an Intel Sandy Bridge i5 2300 bought a year ago with a Gigabyte H67MA-UD2H-B3 mobo.http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/error-when-installing-windows-8-release-preview/a2c11f2c-d43b-44fc-9bc0-61805a2d95ef?page=1 Edited June 2, 2012 by -X- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloha Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Thanks for the links on post 1. ---------------------------------Andrea,Can I create a new partition out of an old one, D or E for example, and install W8 RP on that new one? I've already got 4 partitions: C (Win 7), D, E and H (Win 8 CP). H was made out of D. Can I have another one for W8 RP? W8 CP is working so good and I don't want to destroy it at all to upgrade to W8 RP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Downloading 64bit now. We're running out of purposes for 32bit anything lately... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 From:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/isoSystem RequirementsWindows 8 Release Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7: Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver Additional requirements to use certain features: To use touch, you need a tablet or a monitor that supports multitouch.To access the Windows Store and to download and run apps, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768. To snap apps, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768.Internet access (ISP fees might apply)(highlighted the relevant parts) jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 From:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/isoSystem RequirementsWindows 8 Release Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7: NO! I've been trying to install this for over 2 hours now. I've tried multiple PCs too. Even one that had Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it. No amount of SATA drivers seem to be working. It appears that RP has even less mass storage support than CP did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 (edited) Interesting. From the MS thread...I had the same problem but just found out that the CPU check is skipped when you run setup.exe from the folder Windows8-ReleasePreview-32bit-English\sources.Seems to be working from within the Consumer Preview...EDIT: Failed! Same error. Edited June 1, 2012 by -X- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 I know you can bypass this if you use MDT to deploy Windows 8 (it allows you to skip certain checks, including CPU), but I don't have a machine to test that on that fails the CPU check.It's very interesting, though - either the vCPU or vBIOS isn't telling the Windows 8 installer something it supports properly, or there's some other undocumented check. I've got a Core2Quad 9550 that runs it fine in Hyper-V, and an i5 2467M that also run it ok under Hyper-V on both 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 CP. Not sure what it is about that vCPU or the vBIOS (or both) in VirtualBox, but I have heard complaints that running Win8 RP under VirtualBox is painfully slow on higher-end hardware underneath, so YMMV with VirtualBox in any case.I guess it'd be interesting if a VM running inside VirtualBox on that system really was reporting if NX was enabled inside the VM via something like CoreInfo. That error code usually indicates the answer is no for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 SCOOP! The sentence:Windows 8 Release Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7:as it was originally written :Windows 8 Release Preview probably works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7 , that is if -and only if - it is recent and powerful and has compatible vCPU or the vBIOS (or both), but we never talked of Virtual Machines, did we? (and in any case not non-MS ones) jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Reset the BIOS settings and enable VT and NX Bit again. If not, Mr Snub should fill a bug. And on the MS forums, other users with Intel CPUs have the same issue. So MS will properly investigate this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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