Add virtual windows 8 install to Win Server 2012 Ess. ?

[IamDavid]

Anyone do this? Any pointers?

 

[ViRGE]

Windows Server 2012 Essentials doesn't have Hyper-V support. So the short answer is that you can't; at least not with the built-in tools.:|

I don't have any direct experience here, but I think the only way you could pull this off is to use Microsoft's Hyper-V server package, and then install both 2012E and Win8 as guests.

 

[IamDavid]

Windows Server 2012 Essentials doesn't have Hyper-V support. So the short answer is that you can't; at least not with the built-in tools.:|

I don't have any direct experience here, but I think the only way you could pull this off is to use Microsoft's Hyper-V server package, and then install both 2012E and Win8 as guests.

That sux. Thanks for the reply.

 

[JackMDS]

Hyper-V has a stand alone free version that you can Install it on a computer and then use Windows 2012 Ess. on it as a Virtual computer, in parallel you can install on the same computer other Virtual computers.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-server/default.aspx

 

[hamunaptra]

Can try installing win8 in virtualbox on server 2012 =P
not sure if virtualbox supports win8 yet tho...

 

[IamDavid]

Can try installing win8 in virtualbox on server 2012 =P
not sure if virtualbox supports win8 yet tho...

Virtualbox work on Win2k12 Essentials? I could go with a different flavor of OS.

 

[ViRGE]

AFAIK both VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox work just fine on WS2012E.