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Matt Dawdy
Asked: 2009-06-18 08:43:47 +0800 CST

Odd request. iMac physical machine, want to bootcamp to windows native, then run mac os X in VM

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I think the subject says it all, but I couldn't find any info quite fitting my desire anywhere. It's hard to search for this and not get tons of articles involving hackintoshes or running a VM on mac.

I want to boot natively into Windows XP (that's working just great).

Currently, I can boot into Mac, too, and run XP in a VM, but I really don't want to do it that way as I spend most of my time in Windows.

So, is there a way to, on the Windows side, buy another version of VMWare fusion (or whatever I need), create a new vhd, install mac osx on it, and make my life about 10x easier than it currently is?

Thanks for any and all help.

windows mac virtual-machines

3 Answers

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    Yeah, this can work, quite easily actually - the only problem is that there's no legal way of getting an OSX VM image. But it does work, I'm doing it right now using VMWare Workstation 6.5.

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  2. According to the current licensing, you'll need OS X server. That's the only legal way to virtualize OS X at the moment:

    http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2008/06/virtual-leopard.html

    Specifically, it requires that it be run on Apple hardware, which almost coincidentally, you are. Bonus.

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  3. I think you would be looking at VMware Workstation since you are running from the Windows side - although I have to ask why you would want to do this.

    OS X is a 64bit operating system allowing access to more RAM, has fewer viruses to contend with and in general, makes a much better (personal unfounded opinion) host system than the other way around. Perhaps using Parallels would get you the XP access you need while leveraging OS X.

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