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Posted by jaslar
Dec 20, 2015 at 01:09 AM
And I’ve been running a laptop that came with Windows 7. I run some Linux distros on it virtually, but believe, from a security point of view, that it’s smarter to do it the other way around. Windows 10 has some worrisome privacy issues: like copying all the local data to Micrsosoft servers. But Windows 10 in a VM wouldn’t have much to copy. I just need it for the occasional webinar, which Linux doesn’t do well with.
Posted by Marbux
Dec 20, 2015 at 10:32 PM
> I would like too, so I checked the Virtual Box site, and apparently there is a way to get Mac running on the PC. I will be exploring it further.
> Daly
Virtual Box has experimental support for an OS X guest operating system. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#guestossupport
The big problem is obtaining a legal copy of OS X to run virtually. Apple forbids running OS X on anything but Apple hardware. I don’t know how vigorously they enforce that, but I’d avoid advertising the fact if you’re successful.
There’s some info here that might be helpful. https://askubuntu.com/questions/303725/virtualbox-how-to-install-os-x-guest-under-ubuntu-host
Best regards,
Paul
Posted by Marbux
Dec 20, 2015 at 10:38 PM
> And I’ve been running a laptop that came with Windows 7. I run some Linux distros on it virtually, but believe, from a security point of view, that it’s smarter to do it the other way around.
I agree. But on every Linux system I’ve had Virtual Box installed on, Windows runs agonizingly slow as a guest. No so when running Linux as a guest on a Windows system. Others have said they don’t experience this. But regardless of which way you go, make sure that hardware acceleration is turned on in your BIOS. VBox performs much better that way.
Paul
Posted by Wayne K
Dec 20, 2015 at 11:48 PM
Thanks for the links. I was superficially familiar with the Hackintosh approach and reading some of the articles there reminded me why I didn’t follow through. There are some pretty complicated hardware issues that have to be worked through. You can’t just run virtual software on any Windows machine.
If anyone gives it a shot, a follow up here would be much appreciated.
Wayne
Posted by Lucas
Feb 7, 2016 at 03:56 PM
I highly recommend Veertu, the new virtualization software for Mac that’s available on the Mac App Store (free to run Linux, $40 to run Windows). Unlike other virtualization software, it builds directly on OS X’s architecture—- the download is only 13 MB! Moreover, it doesn’t require kernel extensions or special permissions. And it runs Windows snappily.
That being said, it still has a few kinks. In my case, installation of Windows was initially difficult because the cursor didn’t function—- I had to use tab. But once I had installed Windows as well as the “guest add-ons”, everything worked great. The only other issue has been the occasional need to force a restart of Windows after waking my Mac from sleep.
Anyway, I had abandoned using Windows via Parallels (which I own) because it felt too cumbersome, but now I’m happily using Windows outliners again—- including Microsoft Word, of which the Windows version uniquely features heading-based folding in Print Layout View.