Windows 8 as a Guest: Running Windows 8 Inside Other Operating Systems
You can run Windows 8 as a guest operating system in some virtual machine host systems. It runs well in Hyper-V, so you can run a Windows 8 guest inside a Windows 8 host. (Why would someone do that? A couple reasons could be: for sandboxing, that is, testing software in an environment where it can’t do any damage, and to test software on all of the various editions in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions). You may also want to work with Windows 8 on a computer that happens to run Mac OS X, Linux, or an older version of Windows as its primary OS.
If the host OS runs a 64-bit operating system, you should be able to install and run both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8. ...
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