The latest leaked build of Windows 8, version 7989 wearing, features the Hyper-V 3.0 hypervisor, and the new vhdx format for storing virtual disks larger than 2TB. Also, the Powershell refreshed.
The new build, which follows version 7850, which in april came along, it is part of the Milestone 3-cycle. It is going to be a 64bit version which is now on various p2p sites. The 7989 build, provides among other things, the necessary innovations in the area of virtualization, which on the weblog WindowsNow from the cloths to be done. So get the updated Hyper-V 3.0 hypervisor support for virtual fibre channel adapters ” with a corresponding manager.
Also, Windows 8 new vhdx format introduced. In vhdx images can virtual hard disks are locked up that are larger than 2TB. The limit is now 16TB, while the virtual images are also more resistant against potential data corruption as a result of a power failure. Users of virtual machines would be more than four processor cores and memory cores can be assigned, while also hardware acceleration is provided for certain services, such as ipsec.
In the 7989 build is also a new Powershell to find. Part of Powershell 3.0 are appx packages, a container format for packaging applications. It is not yet clear how such appx packages will Windows 8 be applied, but using a number of command-line tools in Powershell appx-packages to be created and deleted.
Another innovation is the availability of a virtual keyboard, reports Winrumors. This is reminiscent of the virtual keyboard of Windows Phone 7 and is also intended for text input on touchscreenschermen to simplify. Furthermore, it contains the 7989 build the new Metro interface, which was recently published by Microsoft, was demonstrated.
Microsoft will share the first version of Windows 8 expected in september during or after the Build-ontwikkelaarsbijeenkomst. The new OS is expected to be in the autumn of 2012 available.
