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Virtualbox For Windows Mac Or Building

Maybe youd like to test drive OS X before switching to a Mac or building a Hackintosh, or maybe you just want to run that one killer OS X app on your Windows machine.

Virtualbox For Windows Install And Run

Whatever your reason, you can actually install and run OS X on any Intel-based Windows PC with a program called VirtualBox.

Heres how. Advertisement The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh (macOS Sierra) Building a hackintoshthat is, installing macOS on non-Apple hardwareused to require extremely Read more Running OS X on your Windows desktop will take a bit of work, but its pretty easy to do and the final product is awesome.

To see what the whole setup will look like when youre done, check out the video above.

Then, head to the instructions below to set it up for yourself.

Thanks to MacBreaker for figuring out a lot of the original instructions Advertisement Update: These instructions are now outdated.

We now recommend following these instructions over at MacBreaker for the newer, more popular iAtkos distribution of OS X instead.

What Youll Need Before you start the installation process, youll want to gather the following: A PC running 64-bit Windows with at least a dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM.

Mountain Lion is 64-bit, and thus requires your copy of Windows to be 64-bit.

If youre on a 32-bit version of Windows, you can install Snow Leopard instead.

For more info, check out the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension Pack: VirtualBox is our favorite virtualization tool for Windows, and its completely free.

VirtualBox doesnt officially support OS X, but its actually very easy to get up and running.

Sadly, this wont work with a vanilla Mountain Lion installer, so youll have to find a compatible hacked version.

The hacking group Olarila has put a great installation ISO together, and you can find it by searching Google.

MultiBeast 4, which will help you get audio and other things working correctly after installation.

Youll need to register for a free account over at Tonymacx86.com to download this.

GO Media may get a commission Match Stix Shimmer Skinsticks Buy for 18 from Fenty Beauty The Best Virtualization App for Windows Windows users have a few choices when it comes to virtualizing another OS, but our personal Read more Step One: Install and Set Up VirtualBox Before we install OS X, well need to set up VirtualBox so the OS X install disc can boot correctly.

Heres what you need to do: Start up VirtualBox and click the New button.

Give your new virtual machine a name (I just called it Mac OS X) and set the operating system to Mac OS X Server (64-bit).

Advertisement Click Next and choose how much RAM to give your virtual machine.

This depends on how much RAM is in your systemyou can get away with 2GB, but if you have more, give it more.

GB of RAM should be a good amount, though I gave mine 6GB since I had RAM to spare.

Mac Virtualbox For Windows