I decided to check out the latest Windows release to see how much it differs from my Windows 7 install (on my video game/photography computer). So I installed it into Virtualbox.
Windows 8 - Need to change some settings
At first it wouldn’t install and I couldn’t understand what was going wrong. Turns out that in the settings under the motherboard tab I had to tick the checkbox for “enable IO APIC”. So I finally got it to start installing: