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Mac OS X as a Virtual Machine 2 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:27:30 -0200 Updated: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:33:27 -0200 Published: 25 Oct 2008 Published: 7:27 am Updated: 7:33 am Categories: Info & Biz Technology Tags:

Pay attention to this screenshot. This is Mac OS running as a VMware virtual machine.

Mac OS X as a Virtual Machine

Pretty cool as a proof of technology. But let me tell you, this is quite a useless virtual brick.

The UI is extremely slow. I had to remove the background to improve it a little bit but couldn’t resize to less than 1024×768. Console over network is more than slow, is completely unusable.

Oh, and by the way, there is no networking. The preferences panel recognizes a network interface but it is disabled for configurations, meaning it doesn’t have a driver for VMware virtual network interface. What can be more brick than that ?!

I wanted to have a Mac OS machine to get to know this beautiful platform, maybe develop some apps etc. But I guess I’ll have to wait for improvements for this VMware patches.

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  2 Responses to “Mac OS X as a Virtual Machine”

#1

Doesn’t have to wait anymore. Try VMware Fusion (unfortunately is running only on a Mac).

#2

Or maybe you should get a basic macbook?
;-)

In worst case, you can still install Mac OSX on some netbooks.

I don’t think that emulation of OSX is going to get into a usable state so soon.

Best regards

Adenilson

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