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		johkra on Sept 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview According to a twitter answer, yes. At least with Virtual PC. (See reply to question by MrComputerRevo on http://twitter.com/#!/windevs ) Edit: Direct link: http://twitter.com/#!/windevs/status/113690827217313792 (Thank you, Simon.) BTW: How do you link to a twitter conversation?

simonsarris on Sept 13, 2011 | [–]

You click on the timestamp (e.g. "6 minutes ago")

malbs on Sept 14, 2011 | [–]

the dev tools seem to be available for x64 only, and I'm pretty sure Virtual PC will only host a 32bit o/s?

in the other thread someone mentioned vmware panics when booting win8, but parallels works ok. I'm going to give virtualbox a shot

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