Moreover, Apple’s EULA strictly and specifically forbids the installation of Mac OS X on non-Apple-branded computers. Since hacking is required on the user’s end, in order to get Mac OS X up and running through VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 on a PC, Softpedia does not encourage readers to use the software in this manner, even if just for testing purposes. According to the post, users can achieve good results via a Windows XP, Vista, 7, or Linux host. Unofficially, however, the report claims that users can actually install Snow Leopard and run it in VirtualBox on any PC by using a number of hacks and installing OSx86. “This is the first official support for Mac OS X running as a VM from VirtualBox, and is part of the latest beta.” According to the source in question, full support for this has been added only for Mac hardware (although there’s really no point to it), while Sun itself points out that support for Mac OS X VM’s is considered ‘experimental’ at this point. “The latest version of VirtualBox allows you to create a Mac OS X guest host, providing the ability to virtualize different versions of Mac OS X,” a recent report by OS X Daily, which targets Mac geeks, claims. Some of the key additions include experimental support for Mac OS X guests, memory ballooning to dynamically increase or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only), and CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only). The software allows users to install additional operating systems over an existing one as guests, living inside what is called “a virtual machine.”Īccording to the release notes for VirtualBox 3.2.0, this is a major update. VirtualBox is a virtualization solution available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Apparently, you need to go through Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to install the latest version of Apple’s OS (Snow Leopard). It offers a link to a guide explaining how to get the job done.

A report by Mac geek site OS X Daily claims that Sun Microsystem’s VirtualBox can now run Mac OS X in a virtual machine on pretty much any Intel PC.

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