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Offline Chameleon

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Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!
« Reply #45 on: January 11, 2009, 07:08:09 pm »
Hmm, with that VirtualBox, can I install Leopard as long as I have a CD or CD Image for it in a Windows Vista 64bit environment?
Possibly... VirtualBox uses generic software devices to emulate things such as audio and they may not actually be supported in OS X.
This would be a good place to start: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=127677

I've not tried OSx86 or any other method of running OS X on a PC, so I'd be very curious to know your results... I may even be interested in experimenting in parallel on my own machine (Athlon64 running 32-bit Ubuntu) and a Leopard DVD I have access to.

I have successfully used VirtualBox to run Window Vista on my machine.

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Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!
« Reply #46 on: January 11, 2009, 08:15:16 pm »
I'm definitely interested, but I'm waiting on purchasing a 2TB Harddrive, currently have 1.8TB full of movies, music and games and I'm in desperate need of the space and want to consolidate everything onto one drive. It's already all organized and ready to go at least.

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Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!
« Reply #47 on: January 12, 2009, 04:47:15 am »
Christ, Danger Mouse. 1800 gigabytes of media content!? You must have the entire iTunes store on your computer.  :) How long have you been downloading / ripping?
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Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!
« Reply #48 on: January 12, 2009, 06:12:09 am »
Yeah, I'm in the same boat... My Storage LVM array is at 99% capacity... Time to add another drive. Yay for JBOD!  ;D

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Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!
« Reply #49 on: January 12, 2009, 06:38:57 pm »
I'm definitely interested, but I'm waiting on purchasing a 2TB Harddrive, currently have 1.8TB full of movies, music and games and I'm in desperate need of the space and want to consolidate everything onto one drive. It's already all organized and ready to go at least.

Which amount of it have you heard/seen/played? Or are you only a collector? ;)
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Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!
« Reply #50 on: January 12, 2009, 06:43:56 pm »
Hmm, with that VirtualBox, can I install Leopard as long as I have a CD or CD Image for it in a Windows Vista 64bit environment?

I wouldn't be sure.
I've managed to get OSX86 on my laptop before, and I've run it under VMware, but I don't think VirtualBox has the necessary support for it iirc.
Also in VMware it was atrociously slow. Without hardware acceleration the GUI is almost unusable (think XP without graphics drivers, but slower  :P).

As to the install itself, it's largely trial and error. You WILL need patched versions of the OS X CDs (can be torrented, obviously you should own a copy yourself though) and be ready for several hours of frustration as you poke the installer with multiple configurations and kernels followed by another few hours of poking drivers only to have the entire install die completely and need reinstalling.
It's NOT much fun I assure you. I finally broke mine running the OS X auto-update and I never got sound working under either VMware or natively.

What Virtualbox IS good for is running a Linux VM in Windows or running an XP VM in Linux. The last is very useful if you're not bothered about game support (VirtualBox lacks 3D acceleration) as you can dedicate a desktop to Windows and use the rest for Linux.
VirtualBox also has an integrated mode that will let you run Windows and Linux windows alongside each other. It's a very neat solution for many things but I doubt running OSX86 is one.

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Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!
« Reply #51 on: January 12, 2009, 07:31:24 pm »
Yeah everything I have watched, listened to or played. And I only accept exceptional quality!