NOTE: It is not easy to make it work, so normal mortals should not even try. Tested on VBox 1.5.x on Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 on Windows XP 32 host. Verdict: it WORKS ! (with a workaround and not stable, but it WORKS !) Theoretically this should work on AMD too, but not tested. Requirements: Intel SSE3 and VT capable CPU. On VMware WS 6 it works (slowly) without any workarounds, but on VBox it is much faster. Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ To make change permanent just configure Mac OS X bootloader: (this disables ACPI, because Mac OS X dislikes VirtualBox's ACPI implementation due to incompleteness). This vmdk works on VirtualBox with only one modification to the boot command: platform=x86pc One of the images is Deadmoo's OS X for VMware.
This version doesn't require EFI and other Apple hardware, but works with normal PC hardware instead. but there are some hacker's versions of Mac OS X flying around the 'net. Of course, as all the hardware Mac OS X runs on with this solution is virtual, the very same approach enables potential users to run it on non-Apple hardware as well, which is illegal though. This is basically the same approach that Mac-on-Linux took, but this time with the Intel based version of Mac OS X. While the EULA clearly states, that running Mac OS X only once and only on Apple hardware is allowed, this does not exclude running it legally in a virtual machine on Apple hardware. Since I'm not a politician, and not a lawyer, I'll let others to figure this out.Īccording to Alexander Graf: (. Or some big company (Innotek?/VMware?) needs convince Apple to license their OS in different way.
The only workaround I see here is to run VirtualBox on Mac hardware to virtualize Mac OS X. The problem needs to be devided into 2 aspects: political & technical.Īpple only allows their OS to run on Mac hardware. Update: VirtualBox 3.2 supports Mac OS X guests out-of-the-box, without the hacks described here. Let me tell my self the truth: I want Mac OS X guest support on VirtualBox.įoreword: This was originally written in 2007 for VirtualBox 1.5.x
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