Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to Run Mac OSX Virtual PC on a Windows Computer.
The reason I would like to know is my Mac recently died and I cannot afford to get a new one.

I have the OS and software however I can't seem to get it to run.
Spec of my PC is;
Intel i5
8GB Ram
1GB Radeon Graphics.

Let me know if any more infomation is needed.

use VMware or VirtualBox to emulate Mac OD X 10.6

I have tryed VMware Workstation 8 however all I ever get is the little issue box just after the apple logo.
The one that tells you to reboot the PC and try again.

Unfortunately, if you're going to use VMware to virtualize a Mac OS on a PC platform, hacking is required. I won't go into the method here since it's of questionable legality, but suffice it to say VMware will not allow you to run OS X on a Windows platform in its unaltered state. I ran into that pitfall trying to virtualize Lion.

Oracle VM Virtual Box can emulate Mac OS X Server operating systems.
QEMU features a PowerPC emulator, as well as PearPC (there's a manual for OSX setup in PearPC here: http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/installmacos.html)

why virtualization? you could just partition your HD, install OSX ("Hackintosh'ed") on one of the partitions, and you would get an experience that is much closer to the real thing on a Mac

Probably because this is too risky, and he won't get dual boot.

Hackintoshing only works if you have certain motherboards and hardware types. I can't do it on either of my computers, for example, because they do not have the right motherboards. That may be the situation he's in.


Umm....you can set up a dual-boot Hackintosh system. It's just tricky and time-consuming.

Yes... I won't even boot OSX 10.1 on my old PC without emulation...

(even changing processor to a PowerPC one)

You have to either emulate it on a Mac or do some hacking there was a tut on here somewhere that tells you how this can be done it didn't work for me though

I've done it successfully. If you want a link to the tutorial, Zalonic, send me a PM. I'm pretty sure forum rules prohibit me posting it here.

Reason I don't want hackent0sh is that it cannot be updated, as it fixes the Kernals and stop the machine working, thank you for all your posts about this though.

There are some methods of hackintoshing that allow for updates. But my last post was referring to hacking VMware so that you could run a Mac guest on a Windows host.

First, you'll need a computer that has VT-x or some virtualization technology in the BIOS, and this MUST BE ENABLED in the BIOS. The processor has to be 64-bit iirc.

But really, you'll want to use a real computer. A Hackintosh is worth it - I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my Hackintosh and it's as smooth as butter at most times! And people saying that you can't update it - bullcrap.

I have iATKOS S3 V2, and I updated to 10.6.8 just fine. I backed up needed kexts, installed the combo update via a PKG in a DMG (downloadable on Apple's site) then installed the 10.6.3 (iATKOS) kexts.
It's best having partitions, though, unless your PC is crap like mine.



Huh, I tried mine (ASUS P5LP-LE) and I'm on SL fine... It's really the BIOS you need to look out for, as it MUST HAVE SUPPORT for changing the SATA type to AHCI.

Windows XP, only Intel and Gigabyte motherboards are supported for hackintoshing. Neither of my computers has that. That's why I can't do it. However, you're right about the AHCI, though it turns out that many modern computers have AHCI enabled by default whether or not the BIOS allows you to switch modes.

Virtual PC does not support other OSe's other than Windows and Ubuntu.

If you'd read the first few posts you'd see that the term "Virtual PC" is being used to mean "virtualized operating system". He doesn't want to use Microsoft Virtual PC, he just wants to run Mac OS in a virtual machine on his computer, which is perfectly doable in either VMware or Virtualbox.

There's already a topic in this very forum about the same thing. Also, we don't support "hackintoshes" or the means to make it possible.

Search the forum before making a new post like this.

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