Windows 8 not working on a VM?

Heyas!

I wanted to install Windows 8 today on a Virtual Machine to test some things without destroying my main setup, . So I decided to set up a virtual machine to do just that in Virtualbox. Unfortunately it didn't work because it needed something like PAE support (which Virtualbox has disabled as default). I turned that on, booted in, nothing but a different error message saying please reboot your pc and 4 error codes. The first error message was a Windows 8 style boot error.

I had the VM settings set to:

2GB Ram
256MB Video Memory (3D Video Acceleration on)
25GB Virtual Hard Disk Image
Windows 8 (32-bit)

I used a 32-bit image to make it work guaranteed, but no change

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Note: Most of this was copied from the thread I made on the Windows 10 forums, but its the same issue pretty much

 

See my reply in Win 10 forum.

 

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