Run OSX on x86 :D !!!!!

[bloodhound]

For those who have been out of loop, it seems you can now run osx on x86. From what I have read there are two ways of doing it.

 

no 1. You need at least a SSE2 capable CPU. If you have AMD64 which is capable of SSE3 then apparently you will get every functionality, but sse3 isn't necessary

check the following link for more instuctions

 

http://www.360hacker.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1108

 

screenshots:

 

 

no 2. is using VMWare, don't need sse2 google to find instructions.

 

 

 

Let us know if you have tried it and got it working. I might try it a bit later.

[Pangloss]

I've been following this with great interest, and have been wondering if it might be time to pick up a copy of OS X and see if I can get it working. I'm an old Mac fan from the early days, and I think another OS option would be really cool.

[rakuenso]

lol why would you want to... that's almost like emulating linux, only instead your emulating a PoS *nix OS

[1veedo]

It's not emulating anything, OSX (Tiger) runs on x86 now. Btw, sense when do you need to emulate Linux? It'll even run on an Ipod!

[Pangloss]

You say that as if Linux wasn't "emulating" something itself. All operating systems are copies or extensions of earlier ideas anyway, if you want to be cynical about it. That doesn't make them bad or worthless.

 

 

You know, I'm reminded of an old joke from the early days:

 

Q: "What do you get when you use UNIX?"

A: "You get eunochs!"

 

(Okay, it works better verbally. But it's still a pretty good joke!)

[Klaynos]

Mac have built and tested their OS's on different proc types for years...

[bloodhound]

yes, but it's the first time people can get a native install of osX on their computers.

[postgrep]

Who would want to run OSX on their x86? If they wanted to, they'd get PPC.

[bloodhound]

1)because it's free. (to download)

2)apple is expensive

3)run alongside your normal windows.

[1veedo]

Wait, it's free!? I'm about to go download it myself!

 

BTW postgrep, Apple actually moved to x86. The PPC, I guess, is no longer going to be produced(?) and newer releases aren't going to run on PPC(?) That's just waht I get from the move. They may still make OS X compatible with the other archetecture.

[joerdz]

Very exciting!

I need a bigger harddrive now. 30 gigs cannot be shared among windows, linux, and OSX.

[1veedo]

I could make'm fit. 5g for Windows, 5g for Linux, whatever size for Tiger. The rest in FAT as a shared partition (/home, /usr, /windows installs, /osx installs, /shared files).

[bloodhound]

http://osx86project.org/

looks like the official page. they have released some patches including one for the kernel so that you can make Rosetta to work with SSE2

I can't wait to try it out. I just need an external drive, or could do it on a network.

 

edit:when i meant it's free, i meant it's "free" wink wink nudge nudge. there seems to be two versions of image. one the hacked version for SSE2 and the original from the dev kit. There is also a fake from GNAA which loads of goatse and other similar images on boot.