The act of emulating an OS environment to allow the running of additional Operating System instances without dedicated hardware.
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How can I install Mac OS X Lion in VirtualBox, or any other type of virtual machine?
I purchased Lion and heard that it supports virtual machine install.
I want to install Lion into my VirtualBoxVM on Lion on on iMac. How can I do this?
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Where can I read the full Lion EULA?
I haven't been able to find this via Google. In particular, I am interested in reading about whether or not a Snow Leopard license is a prerequisite for installing Lion, and the new virtualisation ...
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What are some reasons to run Windows on a Mac? [closed]
I'm interested in knowing why one would run Windows on a Mac. I may be required by my school to do so, and I'm curious about potential reasons.
So, what are some of the reasons to run Windows on your ...
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Installing a Lion Vm within Mountain Lion
I have a few issues with Mountain Lion that mean I need to have occasional access to a Lion installation. I have bootable clones of my old Lion install before I upgraded, but sometimes I only need to ...
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Is there any free/paid Windows emulator for Mac OS X?
I am new to Mac and I am looking for a Windows emulator for Mac OS X. I want to use an application which is not available for Mac.
Please recommend the strengths and weaknesses (including cost) of the ...
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Is it possible to run Mountain Lion on older hardware by using a virtualization solution?
I'm wondering if anyone has gotten Mountain Lion to run on any hardware in virtualization (VMware Fusion, Parallels, VirtualBox or other...). If so, it would be interesting to know how well (if at ...
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Install OS X in VirtualBox on iMac?
Is it possible to install OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in VirtualBox on an iMac (i3) running OS X 10.6.8? I have the 10.6 install CD, DMG, and ISO, but can't get any of them to boot from VirtualBox.
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Accessing files from Mac OS X in VMWare Fusion?
I'm running VMWare Fusion on a Boot Camp partition. When I launch the virtual machine, I see the C:\ drive which is the BOOTCAMP partition, but I don't see the other hard drive (D:) which is visible ...
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Can you virtualize PowerPC versions of Mac OS X on Intel Macs?
Ignoring licensing/legal issues, is there any virtualisation software that will virtualise an older, PowerPC-only version of Mac OS X (e.g. Panther 10.3.9) on an Intel Mac?
If I understand correctly ...
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How to get Mac OS X to run in a VM on Windows
I want to be able to run RubyMotion on Windows 7 computers. But RubyMotion only runs on Mac OS X Lion. So it seems like the only option is to run a virtual machine on the Windows 7 computers which ...
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“Unable to load the Parallels driver” after upgrade to Lion
I have Parallels Desktop 6 (6.0.11994) installed and after an upgrade to Lion, whenever I start Parallels, I get these two messages:
Then Parallels Virtual Machines window appears but neither of ...
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Computer should be restarted to connect internet (Mountain Lion on VMware 8)
I have Mountain Lion 10.8 on VMware 8.
I am using auto-bridging (vmnet0) for internet service.
The internet works find until I pause or turn off the virtual machine. When I resume or restart it, the ...
