Solved Installing VirtualBox on Win8

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If you have Win8 RP installed and you decide to use VirtualBox, there is a chance to experience some issues.

- First of all during install: the installer seems to hang when it's almost completed. It can take up to 10 minutes to complete the install. (Win7 compatibility has no effect)

- After the install is completed, VBox works but it seems to bring some side-effects to Task Manager and the networks.
Task Manager has difficulty to refresh and display programs icons. Then it hangs when exiting.
The networks load a bit slower since the VBox host networks loads also.

If you decide to uninstall VBox, do a reboot afterwards and Task Manager should work normally again.

There are no issues discovered with VirtualBox itself but the fact that Task Manager hangs is a reason to avoid VBox until extra support is included in future releases.

I don't know if I'm the only one who has these issues but I was using VBox 4.1.18 on Win8 RP x64.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy DV6 7250
    CPU
    Intel i7-3630QM
    Motherboard
    HP, Intel HM77 Express Chipset
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD4000 + Nvidia Geforce 630M
    Sound Card
    IDT HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6' built-in + Samsung S22D300 + 17.3' LG Phillips
    Screen Resolution
    multiple resolutions
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SSD 250GB + Hitachi HDD 750GB
    PSU
    120W adapter
    Case
    small
    Cooling
    laptop cooling pad
    Keyboard
    Backlit built-in + big one in USB
    Mouse
    SteelSeries Sensei
    Internet Speed
    slow and steady
    Browser
    Chromium, Pale Moon, Firefox Developer Edition
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    That's basically it.
It may sound stupid to you, but would you consider uninstalling win 8 RP 64-bit and reinstalling win 8 RP 32-bit ?

I used VMware player instead, and I chose Win 8 RP 32-bit to install ( my host OS is Win 7 64-bit ). No problem installing at all.

t-4-2
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire 7741Z
It may sound stupid to you, but would you consider uninstalling win 8 RP 64-bit and reinstalling win 8 RP 32-bit ?

I used VMware player instead, and I chose Win 8 RP 32-bit to install ( my host OS is Win 7 64-bit ). No problem installing at all.

t-4-2

Thanks for the answer. I wrote the post to mention possible problems/bugs when using VBox on a win8 host.
Why would I replace 64bit with 32bit? VMware works fine, it's VirtualBox i'm talking about.

I think you misunderstood the post: Win8 is the host not Win7 (there all is ok). In this case you'll see that installation of VBox goes slow.

Cheers
Hopachi
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy DV6 7250
    CPU
    Intel i7-3630QM
    Motherboard
    HP, Intel HM77 Express Chipset
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD4000 + Nvidia Geforce 630M
    Sound Card
    IDT HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6' built-in + Samsung S22D300 + 17.3' LG Phillips
    Screen Resolution
    multiple resolutions
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SSD 250GB + Hitachi HDD 750GB
    PSU
    120W adapter
    Case
    small
    Cooling
    laptop cooling pad
    Keyboard
    Backlit built-in + big one in USB
    Mouse
    SteelSeries Sensei
    Internet Speed
    slow and steady
    Browser
    Chromium, Pale Moon, Firefox Developer Edition
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    That's basically it.
It seems it's Fixed with VBox 4.2.

It runs well on Win8 x64.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy DV6 7250
    CPU
    Intel i7-3630QM
    Motherboard
    HP, Intel HM77 Express Chipset
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD4000 + Nvidia Geforce 630M
    Sound Card
    IDT HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6' built-in + Samsung S22D300 + 17.3' LG Phillips
    Screen Resolution
    multiple resolutions
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SSD 250GB + Hitachi HDD 750GB
    PSU
    120W adapter
    Case
    small
    Cooling
    laptop cooling pad
    Keyboard
    Backlit built-in + big one in USB
    Mouse
    SteelSeries Sensei
    Internet Speed
    slow and steady
    Browser
    Chromium, Pale Moon, Firefox Developer Edition
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    That's basically it.
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