Since Fusion is an emulated environment, the 64-bit will work for you too, even if you’re on an older Mac system.Ĭontinue by clicking… can you guess? … “Continue”. Since I’m on the most modern of processors, I always pick the 64-bit version. Truth be told, I find it astonishing that Microsoft makes users try to figure out the difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit processor and guess that the vast majority of people pick the wrong one when they do an install. Notice that I’m installing the 圆4 (64-bit) version of the OS here. After a few seconds VMware Fusion will recognize not only that a disk has been added, but that it’s actually a Win8 install disk: If necessary, plug in an external SuperDrive as I did with my MacBook Pro, then put in the DVD.
If your Mac has a SuperDrive or other optical reader, slip the Microsoft install DVD in. Lots of options, but for a new installation of Windows 8 we simply select “New…” to proceed, which produces this pop-up window: At this point I’m going to give Win8 a bit less space (after all, this MacBook Pro only has a 256GB SSD drive, so space is a precious commodity), but we’ll get to that a bit later.Īt this juncture, all I need to do is click on the “+” Add button on the top left:
You’ll see something like this:Īs is obvious, I already have a copy of Windows 7 installed and I allocated 17GB for it. There are digital-only downloads of the OS, but that’s a slightly different install process, though I bet you can figure out what needs to change based on what I present here.įirst step is to make sure you have a valid copy of Windows 8 including the necessary license key.
I did this install on a new retina MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM, the very latest version of VMware Fusion and the commercial boxed release of Windows 8 Pro, as purchased from. Whether you should, and whether you’ll enjoy the new Win8 user experience, well, that’s another story… The answer is that yes, you can indeed install Windows 8 within VMware Fusion and even better, it works really well and is indeed speed, even faster than Win7 performs.
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