- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes : regarding Windows 8 they say: “Requires AMD-V or VT-x. Guest Additions have small remaining issues.”
- https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=2 : (Guest systems > Windows Guests)
- http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/windows-8-1-download/
- http://www.heise.de/download/windows-8.1-1192088.html
I want to run a UK-English Windows 8.1 in a VM. I purchased a DVD.
VirtualBox 4.3.12 offers Windows 8.1 as a supported guest operating system. Creating the VM looks easy. When I attempt to boot from the DVD, this message gets displayed after a couple of minutes:
FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
This usually means, the DVD is corrupted – but is it really corrupted?
I got a real PC to boot from that DVD, so that DVD is not corrupted. Mac OS X resp. my MacBook Pro is simply not capable to properly mount that DVD, and it also doesn’t let VirtualBox properly access the DVD contents.
I created an ISO image from that DVD on some Linux DVD in the “hotel”, where I am stayed at that time.
Creating the VM from that ISO image simply succeeded.