MAC OS on VMWARE


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AFAIK, there is no EASY way to install Mac OS X on VMware. You have to make a LOT of manual config changes and even then I couldn't get it to work. However, you can download ready VM images, although these are probably not so legitimate. Even then, I couldn't get it working well.

So now, I'm doing it the reverse method using a MacBook Pro and running VMware Fusion on it! :p

(This is posted from my XP Virtual Machine on Fusion!)

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Or you could learn to install OSX on PC, that is about the only way to get a work MAC on your PC. i have Snow Leopard working great on my PC. But it took me a good weekend to learn and work out the problems. But agter all is done, i have a Great working MAC Machine, and i have a sep Hard Drive with Windows7 install for gaming. If you want MAC OS but cant afford the Price, then install onto PC.

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No it isn't acceptable as it violates the license agreement (plus as mentioned before, it's a pain in the arse to get going). You can run OSX Server in a VM legally I believe, but only if the host is OSX if I remember correctly. If you want to play with/develop in the OSX environment your better off buying a Mac, I did! :p (bought the cheapest one I could find and it's great!)

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No it isn't acceptable as it violates the license agreement (plus as mentioned before, it's a pain in the arse to get going). You can run OSX Server in a VM legally I believe, but only if the host is OSX if I remember correctly. If you want to play with/develop in the OSX environment your better off buying a Mac, I did! :p (bought the cheapest one I could find and it's great!)

seems I have to

Thanks everyone :rolleyes:

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running the Mac OS in VMware is basically the same thing as running it on real PC hardware. except, its often harder to make it run in VMware's virtualized "PC" than it is on a real machine.

when Mac OS X first got hacked up for PC compatibility, somebody released a preinstalled VMware imagewith 10.4.1 on it, aka <snipped>. you might try looking for that if you don't mind breaking the law and also don't mind being stuck with an outdated "Mac"

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For iPhone development it might work, but the OS X GUI is heavily GPU-accelerated. Unless there's a decent driver for the VMWare-emulated graphics card, I don't think it would perform all that well. You could probably forget CoreImage for a start.

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I guess a good question is in OSX on Mac hardware, why can't you run virtual OSX machines on that? It's still on apple hardware!

You can emulate OS X Server on Apple hardware (great for creating test environments), but for some reason VMware and Parallels aren't allowed to emulation OS X Client.

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Like other said, you'd be better of installing it on a pc, I've done it before with Tiger on my desktop and it runs great but getting the accelerated graphics, sound and etc working is a pain in the neck, also with the kext files and all that...

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Actually I Will Be Posting A Guide on how to install it on Vmware without any lag even on 512mb ram it should be up tomorrow on neowin

and it is worth it without any lag at all even with the dock magnification

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You can emulate OS X Server on Apple hardware (great for creating test environments), but for some reason VMware and Parallels aren't allowed to emulation OS X Client.

legally i guess would be the "non-Apple hardware" thing (VMware runs a Phoenix PC BIOS last i check)

in reality its just to get you to buy a Mac if you are a PC user, or to get you to buy a second Mac otherwise

Actually I Will Be Posting A Guide on how to install it on Vmware without any lag even on 512mb ram it should be up tomorrow on neowin

and it is worth it without any lag at all even with the dock magnification

i would love to see a detailed thread on how to install the Mac OS on VMware and have it run smoothly on a host with 512MB of physical memory

somehow i think i will be disappointed :(

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Go for a native and much faster/easier installation.Use bootcamp to dual boot OSX and Windows on a pc.

I would not want to imagine you trying to develop iphone apps on OSX runnin on vmware.It would take ages just to open finder.Imagine developing iphone apps.

PS.Yes bootcamp can be used on a pc (for some time now actually) in order to have a proper Win-OSX dual boot.

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legally i guess would be the "non-Apple hardware" thing (VMware runs a Phoenix PC BIOS last i check)

That doesn't explain why we can run Mac OS X Server but we can't run the regular version in VMware Fusion on a Mac.

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the guide im doing for this will be up in a while ill post a link when im finished

sure :rolleyes:

That doesn't explain why we can run Mac OS X Server but we can't run the regular version in VMware Fusion on a Mac.

Apple made an exception in Leopard Server's Software License Agreement, but not in that of Leopard Client, to allow it to run on VMware, though it still needs to be on a real physical Mac.

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Apple made an exception in Leopard Server's Software License Agreement, but not in that of Leopard Client, to allow it to run on VMware, though it still needs to be on a real physical Mac.

Would be nice if they'd did the same for the Client version. I wouldn't mind having a virtual testing ground.

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