Install Windows 8 Dev

You will need Workstation 8, which was just officially released yesterday.

Step 1 - Get VMware Workstation

To get VMware Workstation, you must first request a Product Key from VMware.

Follow this link to get the key for the trial: https://www.vmware.com/...

Creating a new VMware account is a little bit annoying, as they ask quite a lot of personal questions, but what you "really" need here is a valid e-mail address - your honesty for the rest of it is not really our concern. After registering, you will get an e-mail to the account you specified with information on retrieving a key. You will need this key during the installation of VMware Workstation 8. You can also download the VMware Workstation 8 installer from the VMware site.

Step 2 - Get Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO

Microsoft is offering direct downloads of THREE separate ISOs.

Pick one from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/...

Please NOTE the minimum system requirements of each, and then realize that you will need to go beyond the memory requirements on the machine you install VMWare Workstation on. For this example, we will be installing the x86 developer preview, in VMware Workstation, on a notebook with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5500 @ 1.67GHz and 2GB of RAM. If you want to try an x64 installation, you will obviously need more memory than that.

TIP: You can use a download accelerator program for the ISO images, since they are simply direct downloads. JDownloader is highly recommended for that (read a guide for that here.) Downloading directly in your browser will surely take longer.

Run VMware Workstation 8. Click "Create a New Virtual Machine", and a new window will pop up (below).

What type of configuration for your VM? - Choose "Typical" here.


Source : afterdawn