OS X x86 in VMWare

[cpugeniusmv]

http://cpugeniusmv.org/images/etc/osx-x86.png

It seems to work with chips that support SSE2, though SSE3 is necessary for Rosetta (PPC binary translation). Networking doesn't work in VMWare, but it people have gotten it working in some native installations.

This screenshot is from my sister's P4 2.8 GHz.

[zarquon]

Heres a link for anyone interested in installing Os X on their pc.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/in.../Vmware_how_to

[ccc1005]

What kind of performance do you get from this?

[zarquon]

What kind of performance do you get from this?

Dont expect anything very fast through a virtual machine. Really for testing purposes only.

[cpugeniusmv]

What kind of performance do you get from this?

Very very slow in VMWare.

[ccc1005]

Very very slow in VMWare.

Thats what I was guessing, same reason why I never really tried out Wine for Linux, and use a dual-boot instead.

[ducttapeBigSexy]

Wine's a little different then VMWare - Wine is an open-source implementation of the Windows API in a *nix environment - VMWare is a full blown virtual machine. And, just to clear it up, any officially supported OSes in VMWare can have drivers installed in them that make them run as fast as if you were natively running it.

But, either way, wow - I thought Apple was going to include protection to keep OS X from running on just any x86 processor - w00t! :)

[cpugeniusmv]

But, either way, wow - I thought Apple was going to include protection to keep OS X from running on just any x86 processor - w00t! :)

They did. But according to one of the people involved in breaking it, "it could have been stronger."

[Ducktapelover98]

Hi! I reaaaly want this on my HP P4 2.6 Ghz.... Will any one recommend a fast torent download 'cause all I got's dial-up...........(my mummy wont get DSL 'cause its too expensive) XP

*It seems to work with chips that support SSE2, though SSE3 is necessary for Rosetta (PPC binary translation). Networking doesn't work in VMWare, but it people have gotten it working in some native installations.*