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VirtualBox Beta Supports OS X As Guest OS On Macs

Posted by kdawson on from the macs-on-macs-oh-my dept.

milesw writes "In addition to a slew of new features, VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 offers experimental support for Mac OS X guests running on Apple hardware. Got to wonder whether Larry Ellison discussed this with Steve Jobs beforehand, given Apple's refusal to allow virtualizing their (non-server) OS."

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  1. Re:With what host? by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... with Windows ... running as the host OS on Mac hardware?

    [Shudder]

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  2. Re:With what host? by Z34107 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You shudder, but I'll see you one better: Our primary server at work is some kind of Mac tower with two quad-core Xeon processors. It runs Windows Server 2008 R2 which in turn uses Virtual Box to host CentOS VMs for routing, DHCP/DNS, a LAMP stack, and a firewall.

    Linux on Windows on Mac. We call it "Turducken."

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