KVM on Ubuntu: what guest OSes?

[Irving Leonard]

On Martes 05 Mayo 2009 10:05:02 AM Mark Nichols escribió:
> On 05/05/2009 12:09 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
> > Mark Nichols wrote:
> >> Or, running (V)irtual (M)achine (VM) software on one physical machine,
> >> that would host different guest operating systems?
> >
> > This one.
> > Running an Ubuntu as Host and a virtual machine as MacOS.
>
> You'd be better off going the opposite direction. I'm running Jaunty
> inside of VirtualBox on Mac OS X (10.5). While it is possible to run OS
> X on non-Apple hardware, it isn't supported. Most of the "hackintosh"
> machines require the altered DVD image of OS X to be in the drive at all
> times in order to work.
>
> Relatively inexpensive Macintosh computers can be found on the Apple
> Store site, under the refurbished section.
>
> A Google search for "hackintosh" will lead you to articles explaining
> how to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware.
>
> Good luck.
> Mark
If you need/want to run ubuntu as host, you can use virtualbox to run windows 
very nicely. With the virtualbox additions, windows works better than a native 
install, except for directx (for games, etc.) of course.
The 2.0 version of virtualbox have an option to enable PAE (phisical address 
extensions) for the guest OS, that is a MUST for MacOS. I tried to install it 
about 6 month ago with no success but maybe things are diferent these days. 
You can always start your search in InsanelyMac where is a lot of information 
about running MacOS on non-Apple hardware. I try to install some of these 
versions on real hardware with succesive failures, mostly because of 
unsupported VIA chipsets but recently get a hit on an Intel board (just for 
the record)
irving
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