Interesting. You might have a couple more options.

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Post #344,671

by Another Scott

7/9/11 8:56:29 AM

Interesting. You might have a couple more options.

Until the "VM" is in hardware, there are going to be compromises - especially for hardware-intensive things like gaming.

It's probably a moot issue at this point, but you still have a couple more options, I think.

1) Snow Leopard on PC hardware - http://tonymacx86.bl...dge-customac.html People triple-boot such things.

IIRC, Apple's license will allow virtualization of Lion. (They presently allow it on OS X Server, IIRC.) I'm sure they'll still make it non-trivial on non-Apple hardware though. Lion is expected to run fine on TonyMac's stuff, but things do break. (I've not been brave/stupid enough to try it myself as I don't have any appropriate hardware.) I believe that people have run OS X in VMs on PCs, but I don't recall the details.

2) BootCamp supposedly supports XP, but you need the right version - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3777 - that was last updated in March.

HTH a little. Good luck!

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #344,677

by mvitale

7/9/11 11:56:23 AM

Re: Interesting. You might have a couple more options.

Thanks, but the point was to run a virtualized environment so that he could have Windows for gaming and such, and I could have Mac for easier protection of the Windows environment. I was the one who wanted OSX for the management side; he's not exactly dying to have a Mac.

Boot Camp was never my favored option to begin with precisely because it's turning Mac hardware into a Windows box, with no .vbox file to easily back-up to this server for easy flashing.

-Mike

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Windows under OSX question - (mvitale) - (11) - June 5, 2011, 04:28:58 PM EDT

I use it in VMWare Fusion - (malraux) - June 5, 2011, 05:18:53 PM EDT

Vir[t]ual Box seems fine to me. - (Another Scott) - June 5, 2011, 07:52:53 PM EDT

VMWare Fusion here, too. - (Steve Lowe) - June 5, 2011, 05:58:46 PM EDT

VMWare fusion... - (folkert) - June 5, 2011, 06:03:16 PM EDT

I'm happy with Parallels - (SpiceWare) - (1) - June 5, 2011, 06:22:39 PM EDT

I gave up on Parallels - (malraux) - June 5, 2011, 07:42:47 PM EDT

Verdict: Miserable failure - (mvitale) - (4) - July 9, 2011, 12:27:05 AM EDT

Interesting. You might have a couple more options. - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 9, 2011, 08:56:29 AM EDT

Re: Interesting. You might have a couple more options. - (mvitale) - July 9, 2011, 11:56:23 AM EDT

Did you enable hardware acceleration? - (malraux) - (1) - July 9, 2011, 09:49:47 AM EDT

Re: Did you enable hardware acceleration? - (mvitale) - July 9, 2011, 11:59:11 AM EDT

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