Running MacOS inside Linux On a Mac

[Judahnator]

Yes, you read that title correctly.

 

Some background, my company requires the employees to use a Mac. There is nowhere in the company policy that states we have to use MacOS though. So being the little rebel I am, I installed Linux to an external drive and boot from that.

 

I have a co-worker that installed Windows on his, and runs the MacOS inside a virtual machine for if he ever uses it. I have not been able to do this, and cant figure out why. I have tried creating a virtual hard drive linked to the physical one with the command:

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "</path/to/file>.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/sda

This only boots to a blank screen. I know the virtual machine is doing something because i can hear the disk working, but it wont do anything.

 

 

Has anyone else attempted to do this? If so, any guesses why it is not working?

 

 

Thanks a ton!

[ShadowCaptain]

Why not just use parallels / virtual box and run Linux/Windows inside OSX instead

 

 

 

personally I would use OSX, it's a great OS

[SIGSEGV]

You need to hackintosh the copy of OSX to virtualise it

[Guest Generallee]

Why not just use OSX ?

[Judahnator]

Why not just use parallels / virtual box and run Linux/Windows inside OSX instead

 

 

 

personally I would use OSX, it's a great OS

 

 

Why not just use OSX ?

 

I just dont like it so much. Nothing against it, its a great OS. I just prefer Linux.

 

 

You need to hackintosh the copy of OSX to virtualise it

What is this magic, and how do i do it?

[SIGSEGV]

I just dont like it so much. Nothing against it, its a great OS. I just prefer Linux.

 

 

What is this magic, and how do i do it?

Download OSX from the app store and put it in you applications folder then get unibeast and select the version of OSX you downloaded and it will create an ISO. This is how people get OSX to run on non-apple hardware

[ShadowCaptain]

I just dont like it so much. Nothing against it, its a great OS. I just prefer Linux.

 

Again fair enough but why not just run Linux inside virtual box........instead of doing it the other way around.... it seems wrong

[monsieurgoat]

Do you want to virtualize linux on the Mac or dual boot it?

 

If you want to virtualize linux use virtualbox(installed on your mac) and save the vdi file onto your external hard driver.

 

If you want to dual boot it you can use boot camp and configure your external drive as a secondary drive and install linux on that. 

 

I think there are in dept tutorials on this on youtube. BTW, what flavor of linux do you use?

[Judahnator]

Again fair enough but why not just run Linux inside virtual box........instead of doing it the other way around.... it seems wrong

 

Its a bunch of permission issues. You must create the virtual disk link as root, but then VirtualBox does not have permissions to use it.

You would have to run VirtualBox as root as well, but:

sudo open "/Applications/Virtualbox.app"

does not seem to grant ALL permissions to it. If you run the following:

sudo su; open "/Applications/VirtualBox.app"

then VirtualBox will fail to start. So i figured that running with Linux as host would be easiest.

 

Do you want to virtualize linux on the Mac or dual boot it?

I want to fully virtualize it, i already have it dual booting.

 

 

I think there are in dept tutorials on this on youtube. BTW, what flavor of linux do you use?

Linux Mint. I like Debian based for desktop and CentOS/RHEL for server stuff