Mac, Windows, and Linux on VMWare?

[Guest]

Just wondering if it's possible (or easy) to install Mac, Windows, and Linux on a bare metal OS of VMWare. 

 

Just to clarify if there's any confusion, installation order being VMWare first and then the other 3 in any order. 

[AkiraDaarkst]

You can easily make a VM of Windows and Linux easily.  OSX, not as easy and pretty much in my opinion not worth the effort.  That's why I have a MBP for OSX and use VMWare Fusion to create VMs of Windows and Linux as necessary.

[Fetzie]

Installing Windows and Linux VMs is the same process as installing them on a real computer.

 

I haven't tried installing MacOS VMs on non-Mac computers.

[Guest]

Just now, Fetzie said:

Installing Windows and Linux VMs is the same process as installing them on a real computer.

 

I haven't tried installing MacOS VMs on non-Mac computers.

I didn't mention anything about Hackintosh. 

[AkiraDaarkst]

5 minutes ago, Fetzie said:

I haven't tried installing MacOS VMs on non-Mac computers.

I've tried creating a OSX VM using VMWare Workstation, it's a pain in the ass to get it fully operating.

[Fetzie]

17 minutes ago, AkiraDaarkst said:

I've tried creating a OSX VM using VMWare Workstation, it's a pain in the ass to get it fully operating.

That was my assumption, and is the reason why I haven't tried yet

 

(At work I can just grab a mac mini and run VMs on that, which is easy)

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

wow vmware says virtualisaing mac os on apple hardware is fully supported but their documentation sucks

[Guest]

8 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

wow vmware says virtualisaing mac os on apple hardware is fully supported but their documentation sucks

I just don't know how that would be done though >.>

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

1 minute ago, IAmLamp said:

I just don't know how that would be done though >.>

i dont use VMware but virt manager and virtualbox have options to copy the host hardware type to the virtual machine

[Guest]

8 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

i dont use VMware but virt manager and virtualbox have options to copy the host hardware type to the virtual machine

I don't know what that means. 

 

Would booting all 3 on Virtualbox work? 

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html

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• Mac OS X guests:

  • Mac OS X guests can only run on a certain host hardware. For details about license and host hardware limitations, please see Section 3.1.1, “Mac OS X guests” and check the Apple software license conditions.

  • VirtualBox does not provide Guest Additions for Mac OS X at this time.

  • The graphics resolution currently defaults to 1024x768 as Mac OS X falls back to the built-in EFI display support. See Section 3.12.1, “Video modes in EFI” for more information on how to change EFI video modes.

  • Mac OS X guests only work with one CPU assigned to the VM. Support for SMP will be provided in a future release.

  • Depending on your system and version of Mac OS X, you might experience guest hangs after some time. This can be fixed by turning off energy saving (set timeout to "Never") in the system preferences.

  • By default, the VirtualBox EFI enables debug output of the Mac OS X kernel to help you diagnose boot problems. Note that there is a lot of output and not all errors are fatal (they would also show on your physical Mac). You can turn off these messages by issuing this command:

    
    VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal2/EfiBootArgs" "  "

    To revert to the previous behavior, use:

    
    VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal2/EfiBootArgs" ""

  • It is currently not possible to start a Mac OS X guest in safe mode by specifying "-x" option in "VBoxInternal2/EfiBootArgs" extradata.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-macosxguests

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• In addition, as Mac OS X support in VirtualBox is currently still experimental, please refer also to Chapter 14, Known limitations.