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catlover2
March 13th, 2012, 09:38 AM
Sorry, but I just had to post these screenshots somewhere...


http://s13.postimage.org/8ivyi5llf/Screen_shot_2012_03_10_at_12_44_30_PM.jpg (http://s13.postimage.org/f9cfrl8r9/Screen_shot_2012_03_10_at_12_44_30_PM.png)

http://s14.postimage.org/5lgwo1qjh/Screen_shot_2012_03_10_at_12_42_53_PM.jpg (http://s14.postimage.org/et954qxlr/Screen_shot_2012_03_10_at_12_42_53_PM.png)

:lolflag:

synaptix
March 13th, 2012, 02:27 PM
Mac....yuck!

UnknownFearNG
March 13th, 2012, 03:33 PM
Pretty cool! I used to have a MacBook Pro and I did the same thing :)

Bucky Ball
March 13th, 2012, 03:43 PM
Ha, cool. ;)

viperdvman
March 13th, 2012, 08:44 PM
Looks pretty nice. With Virtual Machines, anything is possible.

How do you have a quad-core Intel Xeon on your host system, while your VirtualBox OS's are seeing it as an AMD Athlon II X4's?

JayKay3OOO
March 13th, 2012, 09:09 PM
Do a trick, do a trick. Use them all at the same time with one set of hands simultaneously doing 3 different things without using voice commands.

DO IT! DO IT NOW!

Or Gimme a cookie!

What? I'm Waiting! :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

catlover2
March 14th, 2012, 08:14 AM
Looks pretty nice. With Virtual Machines, anything is possible.

How do you have a quad-core Intel Xeon on your host system, while your VirtualBox OS's are seeing it as an AMD Athlon II X4's?

OSX is running on the machine you see in my signature, and the guest OSes are detecting it correctly, while OSX doesn't.

forrestcupp
March 14th, 2012, 02:39 PM
If you can run a Windows 7 VM inside an Ubuntu VM inside your MacOS X host, and be playing a game in Windows, then I'll be impressed. :)

dpny
March 14th, 2012, 03:31 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/noewun/VM.jpg

Once you start messing with VMs, things can very quickly get out of control. Every time I see an obscure OS I wonder, "can I run that?"

forrestcupp
March 14th, 2012, 07:00 PM
If you can run MacOS X in a VM, I'd be pretty impressed, too. ;)

dpny
March 14th, 2012, 07:50 PM
If you can run MacOS X in a VM, I'd be pretty impressed, too. ;)

You can legally run 10.6 server and 10.7 in a VM, but only on Apple hardware. And what's the fun of that?

Paqman
March 14th, 2012, 08:06 PM
If you can run MacOS X in a VM, I'd be pretty impressed, too. ;)

You can run OSX of a sort...works pretty well in my experience.

forrestcupp
March 14th, 2012, 09:49 PM
You can legally run 10.6 server and 10.7 in a VM, but only on Apple hardware. And what's the fun of that?Why would anyone want to run OS X in a virtual machine on a Mac?


You can run OSX of a sort...works pretty well in my experience.Are you talking about a hackintosh version, or something? I don't think you can legally do it.

dpny
March 15th, 2012, 01:02 AM
Why would anyone want to run OS X in a virtual machine on a Mac?

Software development. Either testing for older versions, or testing for betas.

yetiman64
March 15th, 2012, 01:25 AM
Mac....yuck!
Was my first impression, but on thinking about it a bit more it really is,

Ha, cool. ;)

1920x1080 res also makes it look pretty nice, will have to think about changing my monitor (1440x900:(). Still can't afford a Mac though :p.

Paqman
March 15th, 2012, 01:32 AM
Are you talking about a hackintosh version, or something? I don't think you can legally do it.

Yep. Running a Hackintosh isn't actually illegal, it's just against the EULA, which isn't the same thing. It just means that Apple won't have to uphold any of their obligations they would normally have to provide to a customer operating within the terms of the licence (so no warranty, no consumer rights, etc). They'd be well within their rights to deny updates to you, including security updates, so you could question the wisdom of running such a system.

Selling or otherwise distributing modified copies of OS X would certainly be illegal and Apple have slammed companies for that, but you can make a Hackintosh with a perfectly legal copy of OS X these days. I personally think it's more trouble than it's worth unless you really, really need access to some particular OS X software. OS X itself isn't actually good enough to justify the hassle.

forrestcupp
March 15th, 2012, 02:03 AM
Selling or otherwise distributing modified copies of OS X would certainly be illegal and Apple have slammed companies for that, but you can make a Hackintosh with a perfectly legal copy of OS X these days. I personally think it's more trouble than it's worth unless you really, really need access to some particular OS X software. OS X itself isn't actually good enough to justify the hassle.

It might be worth it to be able to develop iOS apps. That's about the only reason I would want MacOS X.

BrokenKingpin
March 15th, 2012, 02:38 AM
Mac....yuck!
++ ... although I usually do not put it so nicely :P.

dpny
March 15th, 2012, 02:39 AM
It might be worth it to be able to develop iOS apps. That's about the only reason I would want MacOS X.

I assume Apple's got an iOS SDK for Windows.

Thewhistlingwind
March 15th, 2012, 03:23 AM
...personally think it's more trouble than it's worth unless you really, really need access to some particular OS X software. OS X itself isn't actually good enough to justify the hassle.

(http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/binaryprotection/)There once was a user that whined... (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Ewh5a/blog/Don%27t%20Steal%20Mac%20OS%20X.html)

catlover2
March 15th, 2012, 07:18 AM
If you can run MacOS X in a VM, I'd be pretty impressed, too. ;)


There you go. ;)

http://s12.postimage.org/f0m9b8wmh/osx_5_6.jpg (http://s12.postimage.org/65lf0q7u3/osx_5_6.png)


If you can run a Windows 7 VM inside an Ubuntu VM inside your MacOS X host, and be playing a game in Windows, then I'll be impressed. :)

I've never had any luck with running a VM inside of a VM, unfortunately.

forrestcupp
March 15th, 2012, 11:41 AM
I assume Apple's got an iOS SDK for Windows.You assume wrong. They only have the SDK for MacOS. That's their way of forcing more people to have to buy Macs. They're not very nice. :)


There you go. ;)
What was the host OS? Doing it from a MacOS X host doesn't count. ;)

dpny
March 15th, 2012, 03:15 PM
You assume wrong. They only have the SDK for MacOS. That's their way of forcing more people to have to buy Macs. They're not very nice. :)

I'm actually a little surprised by that.

Then again, not so much.

catlover2
March 15th, 2012, 05:24 PM
What was the host OS?
ArchLinux x64 W/KDE.

Doing it from a MacOS X host doesn't count. ;)
It's not actually any easier with OS X as the host if you've got an AMD Hackintosh, because you still need a patched kernel.

forrestcupp
March 15th, 2012, 05:29 PM
ArchLinux x64 W/KDE.

It's not actually any easier with OS X as the host if you've got an AMD Hackintosh, because you still need a patched kernel.

Nice. Is it usable?

catlover2
March 15th, 2012, 05:37 PM
Nice. Is it usable?

Somewhat. The lack of hardware acceleration and random kernel panics take away some of the fun, though. I've also been unsuccessful updating 10.6.3 > 10.6.8.