[GLLUG] Leopard inside Ubuntu

[Charles Ulrich]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:10 PM, David Singer <david at ramaboo.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone on the list has successfully installed OS X
>  10.5 onto a virtual machine running within linux (preferably ubuntu
>  8.04). I know there are some licensing issues with this but I am am
>  using a genuine apple hardware and i don't really care about bending
>  the apple license since i did pay for Leopard. Iv tried several
>  approaches but i still haven't managed to get it to work :( Any help
>  would be greatly appreciated. I just hate rebooting every time i want
>  to do something in OS X.

If you get a hold of the "patched" version of OS X, running it on
something like Xen or KVM should theoretically be possible as long as
you're doing full virtualization on hardware which supports it.
(Recent AMD and Intel chips, namely.) I've been wanting to try this on
my laptop, but frankly I'm staying busy enough with my two zillion
Linux projects.

When the first patched version of OS X was released, I know people had
it working in VMWare server. It was ungodly slow, but it did indeed
work.

Charles