{"id":259,"date":"2012-03-06T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=259"},"modified":"2012-03-06T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:51:13","slug":"windows-8-on-vmware-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 on VMware Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Windows-8-install.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-260\" title=\"Windows-8-install\" src=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Windows-8-install.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Windows-8-install.png 320w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Windows-8-install-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>With more than a million downloads of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview there must be some who want to use a virtual machine for getting some firsthand experience with Microsoft\u2019s latest.<\/p>\n<p>Installing Windows 8 into an existing virtual machine running Windows 7 or the Windows 8 Developer Preview is straightforward, quick, and uneventful.<\/p>\n<p>VMware Player is a popular virtual machine, but even the latest update (Feb 2012 to version 4.0.2 build-591240) does not yet know about Windows 8, so installing Windows 8 as a new machine is a bit tricky. (<a href=\"http:\/\/ludwigkeck.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/01\/windows-8-on-vmware-player\/\" target=\"_blank\">read the whole story<\/a>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..this is a very helpful write-up)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than a million downloads of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview there must be some who want to use a virtual machine for getting some firsthand experience with Microsoft\u2019s latest. Installing Windows 8 into an existing virtual machine running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}