VirtualBox - How to install OS X guest under Ubuntu host?

Question

Has anyone managed to install OS X Guest in VirtualBox under Ubuntu? I've wasted 3 days trying to accomplish this by following various tutorials around the Web, but none seem to work for me.

Can anyone share some experience, or an updated tutorial link for this? For the record, I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 on Acer AS5830TG.

Solution 1

I will warn you that I do not condone this, so please don't try it. However, for educational purposes, it is possible to install OSX in VirtualBox... you need a Hackintosh install disc to do this though. For information on this, have a look here: Lifehacker "How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox". Ignore the fact that they are using VirtualBox in Windows, because the same process will work in Ubuntu too.

Solution 2

http://www.sysprobs.com/install-mac-snow-leopard-1063-oracle-virtualbox-32-apple-intel-pc Should work on ubuntu as well, give it a try

Comments

[iBelieve]

I think I've read that this isn't allowed by OS X's license agreement, but I'm not sure.

[unil]

It isn't allowed, since all medium that Apple release are "upgrade" discs... they do not give you a full install. Despite this, the disc does allow you to do a full install. However the marketing words, along with their EULA, state that the disc should only ever be used to Upgrade an existing install, or to recover from a corrupted one.

[Philippe Paré]

unless you're running linux on mac hardware, then hosting an OS X guest is...ok? And of course we are, right? :)

[Fiksdal]

Yeah, the guest is clearly Ubuntu running on Apple hardware. No soul here would dream of violating Apple's EULA. @rogerdpack

[Fiksdal]

I meant "the host here", not guest.

[Jus12]

Ah, so the trick is to run Ubuntu guest on Apple hardware with OS X host and then run a OS X guest inside the Ubuntu guest @rogerdpack ;-)

[Томица Кораћ]

Thanks hazrpg, that's one of the tutorials that I've tried following, but it doesn't work. OS X installation hangs at 4min before finish, no error message, no nothing.

[Томица Кораћ]

Meer Borg thank you, all I need OS X for is just testing and debugging my web projects for iPhone and iPad. I can't seem to find an adequate emulation for Ubuntu, so I thought I'd giv OS X a try.

[WinMacLinUser]

in case you do not have a install disc, google MC573Z and buy it from apple's site

[Томица Кораћ]

I'll accept this answer because although it wasn't working for me, I finally made it. The problem was the OS X installation was hanging at 4min before the end. The solution is one or more of the following: Disable Audio on your Virtual Machine, increase Hard disk size to at least 40GB, increase RAM to at least 2048MB.

[Papapau]

To those who were stuck at the 4minute thing, just reboot it and don't use CD/DVD rom. I'm using this now on my VirtualBox.