osx - Mac OS X for VirtualBox
2013-08
Questioner
Possible Duplicate:
How to run Mac OS X within Windows Virtual PC?
How do I virtualize Mac OS X on Windows XP host with VirtualBox?
CodeByMoonlight
This is THE thread on the subject in the VBox forums.
Basically, because it's specifically prohibited by Apple (running it virtualised on non-Apple hardware), Sun can't work on making VBox properly compatible with it. This means no Guest Additions, at the very least.
However, it has been done on a basic level by users, albeit with various questionable hacks, and the result is unstable, slow and limited (and it's worse in VMWare, apparently).
7wp
Possible Duplicate:
How to run Mac OSX within Windows Virtual PC?
I have heard rumors that there is a way to run Mac OSX Server in a Virtual Machine in windows. I know this is not exactly Legal.
I want to do this to try out what it is like to develop applications for the iPhone but without the huge investment of buying a MAC.
Cesar
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I'd have a look at this same/similar question: How to run Mac OSX within Windows Virtual PC
Jonathan Sampson answered:
Can you run OS X on Windows? Yes, apparently you can with PearPC. Is it legal? Well, that is another question on its own.
While it is possible (which is what you asked), there are certain limitations:
While the CPU emulation may be slow (1/500th or 1/15th), the speed of emulated hardware is hardly impacted by the emulation; the emulated hard-drive and CDROM e.g. are very fast, especially with OS that support bus-mastering (Linux, Darwin, Mac OS X do). A lot of unimplementated features are fatal (i.e. will abort PearPC). Timings are very still a little bit inaccurate. Don't rely on benchmarks made in the client. PearPC lacks a save/restore machine-state feature. No LBA48 (but LBA). Currently no support for hard disks greater than 128 GiB. Disks > 4GiB are not tested very well.
