W7, W2K3 server and XP run as VM!s OK on W8 HOST

Hi all
just to be obtuse I wanted to run PREVIOUS OS'es on W8 as VM's so I took an older laptop and installed W8 developer x64 on it as the main REAL OS.

Vmware workstation 8 installed OK and so did the following GUEST VM's

1) W2003 Server R2
2) XP SP2
3) W7 x-64

Had all 3 running without probs concurrently on a 4GB RAM HP laptop.

Cheers

jimbo

VMs are VMs, if you can install the clienware and run it fine, i don't know much limitations when you install Guests.

I tried to install 8102 x86 as guest in a 8102 x64 host using VMWARE 7.1, but always get an error... and in VBox setup freezes

vrosa said:

I tried to install 8102 x86 as guest in a 8102 x64 host using VMWARE 7.1, but always get an error... and in VBox setup freezes

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For any interaction as a Virtual Machine you need to install vmware workstation 8.0(paid for) or vmware plaer rel 4 (free) on your host machine --then it all works fine

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

vrosa said:

I tried to install 8102 x86 as guest in a 8102 x64 host using VMWARE 7.1, but always get an error... and in VBox setup freezes

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For any interaction as a Virtual Machine you need to install vmware workstation 8.0(paid for) or vmware plaer rel 4 (free) on your host machine --then it all works fine

Cheers
jimbo

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Thanks for the help, will try later !

:Self-quoting:

I tried to install 8102 x86 as guest in a 8102 x64 host using VMWARE 7.1, but always get an error... and in VBox setup freezes :sad:

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~Update~

Now its working with VMWRE 8 !

Thanks again