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VideoInPicture:
Since I've been playing around with Microsoft VirtualPC and the open source VirtualBox, I've noticed that they support hosting Windows, Linux and OS/2 as guest operating systems. What's missing in this picture is OS X. I've not heard of anyone running OS X on a virtual machine so I am wondering if it is possible to do it.

It's quite possible that OS X has been crippled by Apple to only run on hardware that contains one of their chips that say it's an Apple machine and I fear that this is a very high possibility from my knowledge. OS X uses the PC architecture so there is no real reason it can't run in a virtual machine.

Any one know?

Carol Haynes:
The are some versions of MacOS X that you can get to work on a normal PC using third party tools. I don't think the experience is very comfortable though.

Whether you can get it to work on a VPC I don't know.

I did look at this a while ago but gave up on the idea and didn't keep my notes but there are lots of places to look here:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&meta=cr%3dcountryuk|countrygb&q=MacOSX%20on%20a%20PC

mahesh2k:
I found this link from "PortableApps"

http://nothickmanuals.info/doku.php?id=minivmac

There are Emulators that allows you to run older versions of Mac (Series below OS X),Maybe Basilisks can be of help:

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/projects/basilisk2

f0dder:
OS X can be run in a virtual machine, but it's unsupported and you probably need to hack around in the same way as if you were running a frankenmac. Too bad that Apple actively tries to constrict OS X to only run on their "official hardware".

nontroppo:
Indeed, OS X Leopard can run fine, if a little slowly, in a VM; but it is illegal in terms of the EULA (even running in a VM running on an Apple machine IIUC). That doesn't stop its availability, which one may find in the same places the hackintosh distributions are found. There is no "chip" which stops it running, nor any annoying DRM/activation schemes; the only issue is driver compatibility.

OS X server *is* legal to virtualise (both Parallels and VMWare offer support), but only running on Apple hardware.

My experience of setting up a Dell hackintosh is similar to setting up Linux, once the driver compatibility is sorted out (trivial->tough depending on the hardware in question), then it runs perfectly.

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