Why run a Mac OS X virtual machine? There are a few circumstances when a Windows user might need access to a Mac OS X installation. One example is programmers who need to use the Apple-exclusive XCode to develop and test iOS or macOS apps. The same goes with iMovie and Final Cut Pro for moviemakers and editors, GarageBand and Apple Logic Pro for creators and sound engineers, and more professional applications with no Windows version. Then again, we might just be curious about Apple's operating system and want to see what the fuss is all about. Whatever the reason, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the cheapest way to try out the latest OS from Cupertino. Cheapest as in 'free.' Is there a free VMWare Player for Mac? Up vote 23 down vote favorite. There is a free player for vmware on windows. There is no version of VMware Player for OS X. May 16, 2012 Can someone help me in providing directions on: -Where to find VMWare player for OSX? -Can I run it alongside VMWare Fusion on my MacBook? Sure beats buying a four-figure MacBook Pro. In case you are not familiar with virtual machines, it's a way to emulate an entirely different computer system within our PC. For more information, you can check out our guide: We have also covered how to create a Windows Virtual Machine, both in Windows and Linux operating systems. Creating a Windows virtual machine is exceedingly simple. It is arguably easier than installing Windows on our PC. However, creating a Mac OS X virtual machine is not officially supported by Apple. The company only wants to see macOS running on the Mac hardware because this is what they are selling. VBoxManage setextradata 'macOS' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC' 1 After we have successfully entered all the commands, without any errors, we can close the command line, open VirtualBox and start the Mac OS X virtual machine. At first, it will show some code.then a gray screen for a few seconds, and finally the macOS High Sierra installation. Later on the guide, we will see the full procedure on our Mac OS X virtual machine. AMD CPUs As we mentioned, the fact that Apple computers exclusively use Intel CPUs makes it harder to run a Mac OS X virtual machine on an AMD CPU. Harder, but not impossible. Although there is no High Sierra version yet, we managed to find a macOS Sierra machine on that will work on AMD and tried it with an FX 6300 CPU. The same method is supposed to work on the latest Ryzen CPUs, but we didn't have a sample machine to try it.
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