[feature-request] Add Mac OS X guest support (Intel Macintosh hardware target) => Fixed in SVN

[Technologov]

As written ​here, it might be possible now.

Since Apple allows virtualization licensing for "Mac OS X Server", this also becomes legal now. In future, I believe, Mac OS X desktop will also be legal to run as guest.

-Technologov

[Technologov]

oopps... should be an enchancement.

-Technologov, 11.jan.2008.

[Michael Thayer]

#1704 has been marked a duplicate of this ticket. As with ticket #524, this is something which would be a good candidate for community contributions, perhaps working in common with the Qemu community, but unfortunately it is not something which Sun are likely to be able to do in the immediate future.

[Claudio F Filho]

From Alexander Graf's page[1]: [1]​http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?part/projects&folder/Qemu%20OSX&type/&project/projects&parameters/id=Qemu%20OSX/qemu

Legal While the EULA clearly states, that running Mac OS X only once and only on Apple hardware is allowed, this does not exclude running it legally in a virtual machine on Apple hardware. This is basically the same approach that Mac-on-Linux took, but this time with the Intel based version of Mac OS X. Of course, as all the hardware Mac OS X runs on with this solution is virtual, the very same approach enables potential users to run it on non-Apple hardware as well, which is illegal though.

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so, i have macbook and wish to run Mac OS X inside it. I have a legal copy and machine. In this scene, i think that is possible YES! to get support to Mac OS X in VB.

[Bill McGonigle]

FWIW I've got a Macbook Pro here and I'd really rather run OSX as a guest since Linux is so much more stable and performant. If one is concerned about EULA's, it ought to be possible, as an initial pass, to verify the Apple hardware device string if OSX is detected. I'm writing this comment now in Firefox on Fedora - when I'm done I'll reboot the thing into OSX to do some stuff there. It's very '90's.

[Michael Thayer]

#3088 has been marked a duplicate of this ticket.

[Bill McGonigle]

Here are some DMI values that could be used as a check, per my previous comment:

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information

Vendor: Apple Inc.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes System Information

Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 16 bytes Base Board Information

Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc.

Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 21 bytes Chassis Information

Manufacturer: Apple Inc.

These were generated by dmidecode on linux.

[scotty]

Replying to Technologov:

As written ​here, it might be possible now.

Since Apple allows virtualization licensing for "Mac OS X Server", this also becomes legal now. In future, I believe, Mac OS X desktop will also be legal to run as guest.

-Technologov

if other emulation software is already offering this functionality, then why wont virtualbox allow this to be done? if it is run from a mac then no eula violation ... right?

why can't virtualbox just prevent other platforms from running macos except macos host??

• sfranzyshen

[Technologov]

v3.1 Made a step in right direction, by adding EFI.

I hope Mac guests (+guest additions) will be supported some day.

-Technologov

[Technologov]

FIXED in 3.2.0

-Technologov

[Frank Mehnert]

Fixed in 3.2.0