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'Trying' OSX (El Capitain) in virtualbox (Linux host)

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I am running Linux Mint 17.2 (with Cinnamon as the DE) and am curious if I could install OSX (probably El Capitain) in a VM - solely so I can organize my Steam games . . .

 

You can certainly installed OSX as a virtual machine, however it is a complicated process.

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You can certainly installed OSX as a virtual machine, however it is a complicated process.

Ive done it on windows and it was surprisingly easy. i can probably find the install guide i used. I dont know how that will affect linux but it shouldnt be much different since its a VM

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Because of this forum's CoC I think I'm not able to tell you how to do it, but there are distros of pre-packaged versions of OSX that might work

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Because of this forum's CoC I think I'm not able to tell you how to do it, but there are distros of pre-packaged versions of OSX that might work

Is VMing OSX considered piracy? Never really looked into Mac stuff...

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Is VMing OSX considered piracy? Never really looked into Mac stuff...

I know it definitely was whenever the versions of OSX were paid updates and if you got it through a distro, but now I'm not so sure, and honestly I haven't really looked into the way OSX is licensed now that the updates are free and I was more or less just making sure I was within the CoC by giving a vague answer

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