Problem with installing Windows 8 64bit Developer on a virtual machine

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Finom2011-09-15 14:17:35

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Finom, 2011-09-15 14:17:35

I will not tell the background of the installation, since it is too long, I will just say that I have already spent about 12 hours of time.
The current problem is this: when starting the installer, it gives an error that there are no CD / DVD drivers. After the thought came that, perhaps, the current version is normally installed with SATA drives (PATA is created in virtualbox by default), I decided to change the settings. But the installer did not start at all, everything froze at the step of downloading it: - Installed from under Win7 64 - Through VirtualBox 4.1.2 - Image: WindowsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English-Developer (that is, with development tools, did not check for others)

What could be the problem? Maybe somewhere you can take an image of a floppy disk with the notorious drivers and which is mounted in VirtualBox (honestly, I searched, but did not find it)?

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Evgeny_Shiryaev, 2011-09-15
@Evgeny_Shiryaev

Connect the CD/DVD drive to the IDE controller. Will work.

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@zzeneg, 2011-09-15
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Does it look like the work instructions ? Not quite on the topic, but maybe it's easier to download and install VMware? I posted it in 15 minutes without any problems (the main thing is to choose the OS installation later, and not specify the ISO when creating the VM).

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ReVizer, 2011-09-15
@ReVizer

Installed on VirtualBox under Mac OS X 10.7. Earned without problems.
During installation, I chose that I put "Windows 7"

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EvgK, 2011-09-15
@EvgK

Win7 x64, VirualBox 4.0.12, got up without any problems at all. Indicated that it was "Windows 7 64bit", gave a gig of memory, 50 GB of disk space. Didn't change anything.

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navion, 2011-09-16
@navion

Most likely the image is corrupted, check it by hash.

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lashtal, 2012-03-23
@lashtal

Disable CD / DVD, install from usb flash drives?