Virtual Lab Installation For Mac

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Mac Computeris too expensive, so many of us do not have enough money to buy it. On theother hand, a normal PC is cheaper but installing Mac OS on it is difficult. Soinstall Mac OS on a virtual machine is the good choice because we can add or remove acomponent from the virtual machine easily.

Here is the link to download Virtual Labs for Mac OSX. Scroll up to Windows section. Click on Download Virtual Lab for Windows button. Scroll up to Windows section. Click on Download Virtual Lab for Windows button. Point to the dialog box Select Save File radio button. A dialog box prompting to the save the file opens.

Discussion

Apparatus - To conduct the lab work, we used the following software and hardware:

1. Mac OS X wasinstalled on this virtual machine's configuration: 2GB RAM, 20GB HDD.
2. Host computer's configuration:
   • VMWareWorkstation 9.0.
   • Mac OS X 10.8Mountain Lion.
   • Windows 7 Ultimatex64.
   • 6GB RAM.
   • Celeron B8002MB L3 cache, 1.5 GHz.
   • Mobile Intel® HM65Express Chipset.

1. Install VMWare Workstation 9.0: We used the latest version of VMWare at the time of this report.
2. Create a new virtual machine: The new virtual machine has this configuration:
   • 2GB of RAM: the minimum value that Mac OS X 10.8 requires.
   • CPU with only one core.
   • 20GB of HDD.
3. Install Mac OS X 10.8 on the virtual machine: Using a bootable ISO file of Mac OS X, we were able to install Mac OS X on the HDD inside the virtual machine.
4. Results: Installed Mac OS X could not boot up directly inside the virtual machine. We had to use Chameleon (a boot loader for Mac OS) to boot up Mac OS X. After we booted into the Mac OS X successfully, we were able to use Mac OS X normally as we would use on a real Mac machine, except the 'Launch Pad'made Mac OS X run very slow.

Mac apps crack. Install Mac OS X on a virtual machine has some disadvantages such as: could not boot up Mac OS X directly, some keyboard short-cuts were not available with a Windows keyboard, and the 'Launch Pad' was unusable. However, consider the price of a real Mac machine with a virtual machine on a Windows computer, we believe those disadvantages are acceptable.

We suggest a follow-up procedure:

1. Try to use a real Mac keyboard in the virtual machine to gain access to Mac keyboard short-cuts.
2. Install XCode to see if a CPU-intensive program can be run in a virtual machine.

Although our results are not perfect, it was proved that installing Mac OS X inside a virtual machine is possible and the installed OS was usable. This is an encouraging lab report.