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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / December 2008Running OS X Leopard under VM on Windows Vista
If I wanted to run OS X Leopard under a VM machine on Windows, is there a way I could do it? Can you suggest a decent, free windows based Hypervisor? Any help in this department would be appreciated. No. OS/X requires Apple proprietary hardware. PearPC emulates a Power PC but I don't believe Leopard works yet. Even so, earlier versions of OS/X on Pear PC are very slow. Other virtualization programs do not support OS/X because the emulated hardware does not include an emulation of the Apple firmware (legal issues galore). > If I wanted to run OS X Leopard under a VM machine on Windows, is there a > way I could do it? > > Can you suggest a decent, free windows based Hypervisor? > > Any help in this department would be appreciated. > > If I wanted to run OS X Leopard under a VM machine on Windows, is there a > > way I could do it? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > because the emulated hardware does not include an emulation of the Apple > firmware (legal issues galore). It's not just the firmware. Until recently it wasn't even legal to virtualise the Mac OS itself, but Apple has recently relaxed that rule and both VMWare and Parallels are working on adding virtualised Mac OS support ... for running on Macs anyway. Running the Mac OS on non-Apple hardware is still not legal, and despite rumours is unlikely to change any time soon. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) Yes companies are now working on virtualizing OSX 10.5 but only for the OSX Server version and not for the consumer desktop version of OSX. Technically there are little/no differences except legally Apple will not allow it. On 2/28/08 10:27 PM, in article 290220081627440098%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com, "Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com> wrote: >>> If I wanted to run OS X Leopard under a VM machine on Windows, is there a >>> way I could do it? [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) > If I wanted to run OS X Leopard under a VM machine on Windows, is there a > way I could do it? > > Can you suggest a decent, free windows based Hypervisor? > > Any help in this department would be appreciated. pEARPC is well easy to install with this tutorial. Its great http://www.reabo.co.uk/_tutorials/running-mac-os-x-in-windows.aspx |
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