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Which is the latest version OSx86 to run on a PC without virtualisation?


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I am looking for a OSx86 which can be run on VirtualBox or VMWare Server. Unfortunately all the tutorials I stumble upon require VT-x to be available. Some tutorials are even worse - they assume that I have VT-x and do not warn me that this tutorial will not work without VT-x/AMD-V.

The processor of my computer supports MMX, SSE (1,2,3) and EM64T but no VT-x.

 

For now the only way seems to grab some older version of OSx86 but I still hope someone will suggest something newer for a computer without VT-x.

 

I'll be grateful for a link to some tutorial which shows how to get the latest possible version of OSx86 working in VirtualBox or VMWare Server/Player. I prefer Virtualbox, it's lighter on system resources.

 

Later:

 

well, just tried 10.4.8 JaS on VirtualBox but no luck: it booted EFI Sell 2.10, threw out a list of devices, said to wait for startup.nsh to run and then just hang on Shell> prompt forever. I tried setting CD mode as SATA, tried IDE, tried host mounting with pass-through - the same results. Tried on VMWare Server 2.0 - it just said: com.boot.apple.plist not found. Will try VMware Player now.

 

That google search link points to guides for Lion, which STILL requires you to have VT-x supported/enabled (due to it being a 64-bit OS). Tiger and Leopard are the only ones that you can try if you don't have VT-x.

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