[TriLUG] Vbox guest OS choices

[Brian]

I've tried this too, as I wanted to get into iOS development without the 
major capital investment for a Mac.  I've tried VirtualBox and 
bare-metal installations, both on a ThinkPad T60p.  I can vouch for 
Ken's report that performance within a VM is abysmal to the point of 
being nearly unusable.  Bare metal, the performance is quite decent, but 
I was never able to get the App Store to authenticate.

~B

On 7/10/2014 10:18 AM, Ken Mink wrote:
> I used VBox is install OSX as a guest, mostly just to see if it was
> possible. It is. However, the performance was crappy. There were
> problems with the mouse. The pointer jumped around the screen. One
> reason I wanted to try it was to use Messages.app for iMessage access.
> Turns out that Messages.app uses your hardware serial number as part of
> it's registration and the OSX guest doesn't have a valid serial number.
> The Messages.app running on the OSX guest would not connect for
> iMessage. Anyway, it is possible to create a OSX guest, but usability
> sucked for me. Oh yeah, this was done on a MacBookPro8,1 running Ubuntu
> 12.04 as the host.
>
> Ken
>
> On 07/10/2014 09:46 AM, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
>> So I have been trying to kill out the use of hardware windows installs in
>> the house.  It has been an issue mainly because of a printer/scanner combo
>> (lexmark X75) that will just not cooperate with linux.  Yes I know I need
>> to get a new printer, but hey it works and ink cost is still reasonably low.
>>
>> So anyway to mitigate this I have been using a Windows 7 install inside
>> virtual box.  I am using the oracle repos for it, linux version is Debian
>> Wheezy.  Windows 7 version is ultimate incidentally.  The other reason I
>> went this route is itunes for my ipad to sync if needed.  I am phasing out
>> ipad use at some point most likely so this may become moot.
>>
>> Anyway, and I hope I am not violating any rules since this discussion
>> starts to enter the violating EULA for the OS in question...  What about
>> virtualizing OS X.  I mean I know it can be done but I am wondering if
>> anyone has experience for the performance of OS X vs Windows 7 virtualized
>> through Virtual Box.  I know OS X is only to be installed on Mac hardware.
>>   Just wondering if anyone has tried this out and what their results were.
>>
>> Ken
>