epep Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Hello, I'm a bit off-topic but I'm sure some of you can help me. I own an Intel Apple computer (don't you? and got Debian and MacOS 10.4 installed in multi-boot with refit. My dream would be to virtualize my installed OSX with Linux as host, but I can't find information on how to do this, or even if it is possible. Can someone with a good theorical knowledge on this question explain me if VMWare running under Linux on a Mac is able to use an OSX system already installed on the same Mac ? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/ here you go, if you can get this to work can you PM me? I struggled and struggled! cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epep Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Thanks Embio !! This is THE work I was looking for, with great advantage to be free software, and best of all : IT WORKS FOR ME !! I struggled too, but during my struggle Alex Graf had the great idea to make an update, and everything went simpler. I applied his new patch on kvm-snapshot-20080531, run 2.6.24.7 kernel, and I can now launch my installed MacOS 10.4 in 1024x768 - millions colors. I just have to fix network now, should be easy. Sound isn't working but I don't need it. And it's really fast. If you want to go back on struggle I'll be glad to help you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epep Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 I just have to fix network now, should be easy.Hum, it was harder than virtualizing my installed OSX.I took loooong time to understand that the AppleRTL8139ethernet.kext provided with 10.4.11 wouldn't load, and that I must use this NIC from qemu. Finally I found a new one on this forum, and got network up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 With the first OSX86 installations I could virtualize OSX with VMWare for Windows, OSX was installed nativelly on a second disk. I never tried to ran from VMware for Linux. Then the new versions of OSX came, from 10.4.5 or .6 differences between native and virtualized increased to a point that I can no loger run my native OS X with VMware, so I kept a 10.4.3 installation on a virtualized disk (VMDK) that I use up today with VMware for Windows, VMWare for Linux, and VMware Fusion, as my XP and Win98 virtual machines also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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