I hope they do eventually release drivers for OSX to run faster on the VM. I have OSX on VMware, but it is horribly slow. The reason for that is that it needs drivers installed on the guest OS, and the folks at VMware won’t release them due to concern about apple suing them: Installing OSX on a VM is specifically disallowed under its EULA.

that’s sweet and all, but come on. the reality of what makes os x nice is the fit, finish and feel when it’s running NATIVELY…

@ Mr.Chibbles

I’m having the same issue with my pentium E5200 and win7 x64, I’m wondering if it’s the 64 bit Windows that is causing problems?

On a side note, I’m not using hardware virtualization as my processor doesn’t support it

Why would you ever run a virtualized OSX guest on an OSX host?

I like how the post forgot to tell people the host needs to be a Mac OS X.

Better title would be
VirtualBox beta runs Mac OS X as guest when host is Mac OS X.

yeah this is a lot less helpful if it only runs in OS X…

Who would want to run Mac anyway??

:D

Yo dawg, we herd you liked osx so we put osx in your osx… ok that’s enough :)

But seriously, this is pretty cool. I wonder if this will ever be supported in VirtualBox on other platforms. And how long it will take the big apple to notice and get their lawyers on Oracle.

As far as there being many better Linux distros, I have tried a great number of them and found all to be lacking in numerous ways. No matter how far we’ve come lately, Linux doesn’t “just work”.

At first, when we ran MacOS 9 on our office computers, I hated it. Once we upgraded to OSX in the mid oughts, I wished I could afford to have a nice mac on my desk at home. I am a PC user for over twenty years, and yet I prefer the simple elegance of the Mac any day. I find myself constantly trying to Exposé when I’m at my home PC, which is irritating to say the least.

Well that’s kind of stupid.

“Hey! Our car can fly!*”

*note, car must be parked in plane for flying to be possible.

“You can fly regardless of what you’re sitting in, as long as whatever you’re sitting in is in a plane.”

It’s quite amusing to see so many people bash Mac OS X. It’s actually a great OS. We run ubuntu on all of our work machines because it’s easier to avoid any malware and slow staff down from installing things they shouldn’t but seriously, it’s really not anywhere near the standard of OS X when it comes to an OS experience. Yes there are tonnes of free apps which is great but everything is just a little more work and a little more ugly than OS X.

Mac – The power of *nix and the ease of Windows.

I wish this would let mecdo a full install on my amd machine

@anon

for application testing/sandboxing

@ AB

“for application testing/sandboxing”

Why would you ever need to sandbox OSX?

8 cores = 8 copies of an app to fuzz.

@ejonesss:

Virtualization != emulation.

For those of you who keep asking
“why would you want to virtualise MacOS on a Mac anyway” ?
the simple answer, in my case at least anyway, is that I am a software [web apps mostly] developer and my host is Ubuntu Linux and I need to test applications in Win and Mac, and the ability to do this using virtualisation and all at one time with restarting and booting to a different OS is a real time saver .

YES! Some of you are stupid. Do you have software on Linux like the one developed on Apple? You have absolutely no clue regarding of what you are speaking about..