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I have tried several options and combinations to setup Windows 8 as a VM in my Win-7 laptop. Below is what succeeded finally.

My system configuration:
Windows 7 64 bit with 8 GB RAM and Core-i5

What you need:
2GB free to allot to VM and interest to setup win-8

Here is what you need to do-

1. Download Windows 8 Setup from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516


2. Setup VMPlayer 4.0 in your system




• This is not available as a separate download. You need to download install VMWare Workstation 8.0 from http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation/8_0 This is not free but the VMPlayer 4.0 which comes along with this is free. So later you can disable vmware workstation services and just use vmplayer




3. Open VMPlayer and create new VM




• select Windows 7 x64 as OS type


• allot 12+ GB hard disk


• allot 2BM RAM


• CD/DVD settings > Select ISO image file you downloaded


• close




4. Open newly created VM




• Now the setup will start automatically


• Follow the installation wizard




5. Finally




• Explore yourself [It comes with Visual Studio 2011 express] :-)

Thanks for reading.

Note:The same steps are valid for 32 bit setup as well

Source: http://binav.blogspot.com/2011/09/windows-8-developer-preview-setup-on.html