G'day,
I recently purchased a Dell XPS8700 workstation which came with Windows 8 installed.
I want to install Ubuntu (not dual-boot) on it but before doing so I wanted to virtualize Windows 8.
So, I downloaded VMware Converter 5.1 Standalone, and used it to create a VM of Windows 8. So far so good.
I then tried to run this VM in VMware Player 5.02 (both the Windows and Ubuntu versions). Player recognises the VM correctly but when I try to power it on I see a black screen for a few seconds and then it exits. There are no error messages produced in the logs that indicate what the problem is.
Has anyone had success virtualizing Windows 8 for use with VMware Player?
Thanks,
Chris.