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I have a MacBook Pro with Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition. Using Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac, I can load Windows 7 (from the Boot Camp partition) as a guest on the Mac OS X host. I want the opposite; Mac running in a VM on Windows. I understand Apple's licensing terms, but that's another matter; I'm only interested in pulling it off technically. So, is there a software product for Windows that can boot from the Macintosh HD partition to run Mac OS X in a VM on Windows 7? | |||
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Try this out: http://lifehacker.com/5583650/run-mac-os-x-in-virtualbox-on-windows EDIT: On a closer reading of your question, I realize that I misread parts of it. The only way I know of using a physical partition in Virtualbox would be like this: http://www.bluemind.org/tips-a-tricks/9-linux/29-virtualbox-using-physical-bootable-partition.html And even here, it's not guaranteed that the Mac partition can be used. Licensing issues come into the question only so far as to say that Virtualbox has (in the past) intentionally not supported the use of Mac OSes. In short, you could make a separate installation of OSX via the Lifehacker guide above, and then use Dropbox or something to sync files between the virtual machine and your actual OSX partition. | ||||
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