We get a few emails every month about running Mac OSX on a PC and its something I never gave much thought to. Well in the process of upgrading some machines this came to mind, so I did a bit of digging and found a pretty good solution that works very nicely.
For anyone that has ever wanted to run Mac OSX on a PC, its actually quite easy to setup and a great way to give the Mac OS a good test run. You could also install it as your sole operating system and run Parallels for Mac, which allows you to run Windows XP etc from your Mac, and it does this very well. I have been running Parallels on a Macbook and I am very impressed with the speed of XP.
Installing OSX on Your PC
Here is a quick rundown of what you will be need to do. I will break it down to basics, so that when you read the full guide it should be fairly simple to follow.
1) A completely separate hard drive or external hard drive will be required. You cannot install this on an existing drive, not even as a partition. Just get another drive, I did it on an external drive and it worked nicely.
2) You will need a couple of tools, don’t worry these are free. You will need to download Forensic Acquisition Utilities and WMI Tools from Microsoft.
3) You will then copy the OSX image to your external/spare/other drive with forensic acquisition tools. WMI tools are just used to find the physical drive name. You will need this drive name when copying the image. Once the image is copied, you will be able to boot into OSX. Just set the boot drive in the bios.
Pretty simple. Here is the full guide with the commands you need
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