I must have missed something and somebody might know what Eventually needed to try Windows8-ReleasePreview-64bit-English in VMware Workstation Technology Preview 2012 (nothing moded for this exercise, just in case) Using default settings (hardware compatibility Workstation 2012, Windows 8 64-bit) it installs fine from iso, but never boots after that (stays on the Windows black logo) Changing the hardware compatibility to Workstation 8 makes it work OK (but I can never login to it, it just spins around) Then renaming vmware-vmx.exe to vmware-vmx-debug.exe (so I do not get the debug warning) I am back to the same as originally, it does not load & stays on the Windows black logo Anybody having any idea? sebus
The latest version of VMWare Workstation 8.0 (actually my old build of 8.0, too) runs Windows 8 RP just fine for me (installed selected Windows 7 x64). I abandoned trying the Tech Preview of VMware since the latest build of 8.0 actually has a much higher build number than the Tech Preview. So although some things haven't been implemented in 8.0 that have in 2012 (the ability to select Windows 8 from the list of OSes, don't specifically know what else), I'll keep using 8.0 at least until another preview is released, or the RTM of 2012. I *thought* that I did have Windows 8 running just fine in 2012, though. BTW, when you changed hardware compatiblity from 2012 to 8.0, did you reinstall/recreate Windows 8 after, or did you just see what the installation would do after you changed hardware compatibility? If you didn't reinstall Windows 8 after, you might want to try that if you really don't want to "downgrade" to 8.0.
Add the following three lines to your .vmx file.mce.enable = "TRUE" cpuid.hypervisor.v0 = "FALSE" vmGenCounter.enable = "FALSE" Try that and it should boot. (Thanks to VMware communities).