Microsoft Windows 8 and beyond?

[Rhidian]

I'm assuming that support for Windows 8 and future releases will only be made available for ESXi 5 effectively forcing an upgrade from ESXi4, anyone got any details?

[a_p_]

I doubt you will get an official answer to this question. From the past experiances (Windows 7 support was added for ESXi 3.5) I would assume support for Windows 8 will be added to ESXi 4.1. However, this is just my personal opinion.

André

[wdroush1]

I would speculate differently, the strongarmed enforcement of 5.0 licensing upgrade and complete dropping of ability to license 4.1 supports the idea of VMWare completely dropping support for 4.1 to get people off of it all around.

I'm sure Windows 7 VMWare tools will work "good enough", with the usual quirks with the wrong drivers being installed (which apparently still happens in ESXi 5.0... comeon guys, fix bugs that affect all of us, flashy features for the enterprise users after....)

[a_p_]

I assume you are talking about the free Hypervisor. AFAIK this was just an issue with the web page update. You can still register and download the free ESXi 4.1 Hypervisor at http://www.vmware.com/go/get-esxi-4

André

[wdroush1]

André Pett wrote:

I assume you are talking about the free Hypervisor. AFAIK this was just an issue with the web page update. You can still register and download the free ESXi 4.1 Hypervisor at http://www.vmware.com/go/get-esxi-4

André

Oh, I take it back then, there is luck for Windows 8 support on 4.1 then (again though, I don't see much of a difference from VMWare tools on Windows 7 though).

[marktbreaux]

Has any tried the developer version of 8 on esx? I am downloading it now to see if I can get it to work.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516 if you are interested in trying also.

Mark

[mcowger]

It works - william has a blog post:

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/09/how-to-run-windows-8-on-vsphere-5.html

[marktbreaux]

Awesome. what if I am on 4.1? I run vmware view and until view 5 comes out I am stuck on 4.1

[einstein-a-go-g]

VMware View 5.0 went GA today!

[Silverfoxs]

it still didn't work for me. I tried to change vmx and remove vm from inventory and register vm again and also tried vim-cmd /reload.

I still get CPU errors with in the log when it started w8.

Any ideas?

[lamw]

blog post was updated to reflect the issue, at this moment, no work around.

[Silverfoxs]

Thank you for your reply. I guess I didn't hit "F5".

[pbraren]

This age old question has now sort of been addressed, by VMware in KB Article 2006859 here:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200685...

Tried the newer Windows 8 Consumer Preview released Feb 29 2012, and indeed, Patch 02 is still required:

http://tinkertry.com/windows-8-consumer-preview-on-esxi-5-0-patch-02/