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Old 08-01-2012, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Omaroo View Post
Could you imagine the effort required to support this?
Yes, exactly zilch, zero because, like VmWare Fusion, all the hardware is virtual. It runs on the 'perfect' virtualized machine which is going to be the same no matter what system you install it on.
Virtualbox, as well as VMWare (as of vSphere 5) actually officially support MacOSX as a guest system.
As a matter of fact, you just pop in a MacOSX install DVD and away you go, no extra configuring, nothing.
Trouble is, Apple only allows MacOSX Server to be virtualized, not the desktop version (for no apparent reason) and additionally stipulates that the virtual machine must only be run on Apple hardware (eventhough the host operating system can be anything). Fun hey?

Ofcourse, if you simply ignore these limitations, you can run MacOSX just fine in any VM. I've done so (for educational purposes of course) and everything just magically works

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Originally Posted by AG Hybrid View Post
Sorry what this threat about again? I think it got lost on page one.
Just general chat, as the sub-forum indicates

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