I would think that with VirtualBox, if it works therein, it should work on either a Linux or Windows host. I will dig up the link for the blog post I followed. I already had purchase Mountain Lion for my Macbook Pro, but there are several ones of them floating around. So, far, it has been good for me. I loaded Xcode on it and was going to start looking at some Obj-C stuff. You can't signed up for a new Apple ID on it as it is not real apple hardware, *BUT* if you have or can get an Apple ID from any other apple device you might have access to (like an iPod, iPhone, iPad, or Macbook), that Apple ID should work with the VIrtualBox instance (at least mine does). I could then go to the App Store and install other components. Though I have a Macbook, and though not everything works the same as when it is running on a Macbook (because of absent hardware mainly), I still found it handy to have it virtually as well to be able to do things to it that I would never want to try out on my Macbook. Not to mention the ability to snapshot it, and then try something, and then revert back if you need/want to.
By the way, here is the link: http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/07/mountain-lion-virtualbox.html Even though it is for Windows host, I really didn't see anything that suggested you could make it work on a Linux host as well. Would be interesting to see if it would work for you. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Donald Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] creating a linux vm on esxi: bios or efi? On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > OT: There is a boot hack way around the Mac OS X on Apple host only, > btw, that works for VirtualBox and some say will also work for ESXi > 5.1, but I haven't tried it yet. I have Mountain Lion on Virtual Box > on my Windows 7 Ult 64bit and it works amazingly well (iTunes plays > music through it just fine). Any idea if this is possible with a Linux host? I've been building an iOS app the past couple months and I really miss my Linux desktop :( That'd be awesome to get back to just using one machine for everything. -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
