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Also as mentioned by earlier guide in Sysprobs, Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT)

and NX/XD should be enabled on host computer.

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1) If you like to install Windows 8.1 enterprise, you can download 90 days trail ISO from
Microsoft site here.

Other versions can be downloaded and created ISO as mentioned in this post. Select ISO file
option as we will be attaching it to virtual machine’s CD drive.

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2) Create a virtual machine with Windows 8.1 OS type. Leave the default settings of VM.
Increase the RAM size ( I recommend 2GB) and processor cores.

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Attach the ISO file you have download or created to CD/DVD drive of virtual machine. Windows 8 & 8.1

3) If you still decided to go with older VirtualBox versions (before 4.3 or 4.2.18), the following
command needs to be run from correct folder path before switching on virtual machine.

VBoxManage.exe setextradata "VM Name" VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1

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Make sure that the above command doesn’t return any error messages, successful execution
will not return any messages.

If you have latest VirtualBox version, skip this step 3.

4) Power on the virtual machine, installation will start smoothly.

Note every installation steps are covered here.

Select the second option to install fresh copy.

5) You need to have or create a Microsoft online account to use Windows 8.1. Obviously
internet connection should be available on physical host and virtual machine. The default
settings of Network ‘Bridged Mode’ and connect it to physical network will allow internet
connection inside virtual machine. So, you can login with your existing Microsoft account or
create a new account from this screen.

6) As one of the new feature, you can connect and setup SkyDrive in next screen.

It will take sometime to finish the online updates, setting up apps and other configurations.

7) Here is a working Windows 8.1 on VirtualBox.

VirtualBox Guest Additions for Windows 8.1

With the official support of Windows 8.1 in Oracle VirtualBox 4.3, installing guest additions will
give improved display options and resolutions.

To start the installation, click on ‘Devices’ and ‘Install Guest Additions’ in menu bar. Once
files are mounted to CD drive select the appropriate file version 32 bit or 64 bit.

I have selected 64 bit file as mine is Windows 8.1 64 bit enterprise version.

After rebooting the virtual machine, you can make sure the successful installation of guest
additions by seeing few enabled menu options under View.

The full screen mode and auto resize display will work fine after VirtualBox guest additions
installation in Windows 8.1.

The Display Performance Issues

Windows 8.1 may requires high performing and more video memory display cards, I’m not sure
whether its a capability issue of my host machine, the full screen display is not up the
standard. The Windows tiles come and go very slowly. When I move the curser fast inside
virtual machine, the screen flicks and breaks.

By playing around with 2D, 3D and none video settings, I have found out the enabling only 2D
video acceleration worked quite well for me.

It would be great if you could share your experience about running Windows 8.1 on VirtualBox,
especially display performance.

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Adrian says:
June 30, 2013 at 3:37 pm

Super! I was getting the 0x000000C4 error code too and the command line trick worked for
me
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Charlie says:
July 1, 2013 at 9:39 pm

THANK YOU !
Worked for me also.
Was going Crazy trying to install Windows 8.1 in Oracle VM
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Jenny says:
July 2, 2013 at 8:04 pm

Wow, this should be posted from MS! I had to Google 3 days and found this. Kudos and
kisses to the fix!
Windows 8.1 sucks still, company really looking to getting MACs now. This is real push
away from XP and 7 that millions love.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING MICROSOFT!!!??
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Zach Smith says:

July 2, 2013 at 10:05 pm

this was actually informative – not like most of what i see online. sharing
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Yusuf says:
July 16, 2013 at 8:54 pm

it’s great and very usefull

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Dave Folsom says:

July 20, 2013 at 3:48 am

When you run the dos command (VBoxManage.exe setextradata “VM Name”
VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1) it should be run as administrator.
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Filip says:
October 9, 2013 at 5:46 pm

Thanks for your solution … It’s really help to me … I was serching solution half day, but
this is works on 100% …
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KingofTech says:
November 18, 2013 at 12:05 am

WOW!
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James says:
December 16, 2013 at 2:51 pm

This worked for me… Thanks a lot!!!

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idilhaq says:
January 3, 2014 at 7:31 am

Great! It works for me, thanks

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ARTHUR says:
January 16, 2014 at 3:06 am

ALL I WANT TO DO IS PLACE THE ICON ON MY DESK TOP………..KEEP IT SIMPLE I

NEED ANYTHING COMPLICATED……………….IF THIS IS PROGRESS GET ME BACK
TO XP.
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