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[LUG] Virtualbox + Win8.1 Fix

 

Yeah yeah, I know it's windows but some of us sysadmins actually have to
test this stuff...

The 8.1/Blue preview is now out for the unwashed masses - those of us
with Technet subscriptions had it a couple of days ago - but it won't
boot on VirtualBox.

To fix:

vboxmanage setextradata blueshift VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1

Change "blueshift" to the name of your 8.1 VM, that's just what I
happened to call mine. My VBox host is Linux of course, but the same fix
applies to Windows hosts. No idea if this effects Apple or Solaris hosts.

Regards

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