I actually like the official answer: "We've seen it work, it should work, but it's not supported." Much better than "we can't comment, we don't support that."

edit: They seem to be collecting "pro tips" from users, so you are welcome to try any scenario and tell them about it, so they can tell other users.

According to a twitter answer, yes. At least with Virtual PC. (See reply to question by MrComputerRevo on http://twitter.com/#!/windevs )

Edit: Direct link: http://twitter.com/#!/windevs/status/113690827217313792 (Thank you, Simon.)

BTW: How do you link to a twitter conversation?

You click on the timestamp (e.g. "6 minutes ago")

the dev tools seem to be available for x64 only, and I'm pretty sure Virtual PC will only host a 32bit o/s?

in the other thread someone mentioned vmware panics when booting win8, but parallels works ok. I'm going to give virtualbox a shot

Got it up and running on a hyper-v VM in about 30minutes. Running great, but I can't figure out what the 'back' button equivalent is on the keyboard so that I can exit the App I'm in :)

edit: Turns out it's the windows key! I couldn't use it from the hyper-vm client, but once I remoted in via Remote Desktop it worked great. Loving the apps so far.

No problems running the 64-bit version in VirtualBox 4 on 64-bit Ubuntu Natty. Couldn't boot past splash screen in VMware Player.

No probs running from VirtualBox 4 on Win 7 either.