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Has anyone managed to install OS X Guest in VirtualBox under Ubuntu? I've wasted 3 days trying to accomplish this by following various tutorials around the Web, but none seem to work for me.

Can anyone share some experience, or an updated tutorial link for this? For the record, I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 on Acer AS5830TG.

Томица Кораћ
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  • I think I've read that this isn't allowed by OS X's license agreement, but I'm not sure. – iBelieve Jun 03 '13 at 21:51
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    It isn't allowed, since all medium that Apple release are "upgrade" discs... they do not give you a full install. Despite this, the disc does allow you to do a full install. However the marketing words, along with their EULA, state that the disc should only ever be used to Upgrade an existing install, or to recover from a corrupted one. – hazrpg Jun 04 '13 at 00:01
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    unless you're running linux on mac hardware, then hosting an OS X guest is...ok? And of course we are, right? :) – rogerdpack May 20 '14 at 16:06
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    Yeah, the guest is clearly Ubuntu running on Apple hardware. No soul here would dream of violating Apple's EULA. @rogerdpack – Fiksdal Oct 13 '16 at 20:37
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    I meant "the host here", not guest. – Fiksdal Oct 14 '16 at 10:47
  • Ah, so the trick is to run Ubuntu guest on Apple hardware with OS X host and then run a OS X guest inside the Ubuntu guest @rogerdpack ;-) – Jus12 Dec 18 '16 at 21:31

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I will warn you that I do not condone this, so please don't try it. However, for educational purposes, it is possible to install OSX in VirtualBox... you need a Hackintosh install disc to do this though. For information on this, have a look here: Lifehacker "How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox". Ignore the fact that they are using VirtualBox in Windows, because the same process will work in Ubuntu too.

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  • Thanks hazrpg, that's one of the tutorials that I've tried following, but it doesn't work. OS X installation hangs at 4min before finish, no error message, no nothing. – Томица Кораћ Jun 04 '13 at 05:53
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    I'll accept this answer because although it wasn't working for me, I finally made it. The problem was the OS X installation was hanging at 4min before the end. The solution is one or more of the following: Disable Audio on your Virtual Machine, increase Hard disk size to at least 40GB, increase RAM to at least 2048MB. – Томица Кораћ Jun 05 '13 at 08:44
  • To those who were stuck at the 4minute thing, just reboot it and don't use CD/DVD rom. I'm using this now on my VirtualBox. – Papapau Oct 25 '13 at 07:00
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http://www.sysprobs.com/install-mac-snow-leopard-1063-oracle-virtualbox-32-apple-intel-pc Should work on ubuntu as well, give it a try

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I have done the same thing and found out that OSX is very hardware specific. So to get the OSX to work you need to adjust the OSX to understand the hosts hardware emulation. You will be able to get it up and running so that the ethernet works and the screen and the rest is very dodgy.

The other problem as that the OSX will not be update-able. As soon as you update the OSX the install will break. The process is a cat and mouse chase of ensuring your updates do not kill the emulators limited hardware.

You'd think that Apples decision to go down the Intel route would make it easier but it doesn't. In the end the emulation will be slow and any advantage that OSX brings will be lost.

There are premade versions that are sold by third party vendors to run on regular hardware but they too will suffer from the issues I have mentioned.

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  • Meer Borg thank you, all I need OS X for is just testing and debugging my web projects for iPhone and iPad. I can't seem to find an adequate emulation for Ubuntu, so I thought I'd giv OS X a try. – Томица Кораћ Jun 04 '13 at 05:55