If you really dont care about following the rules on this, there is an unlocker that you can run to modify VMware Player or VMware Workstation to support OS X guests on Windows and Linux.Īs Ive already mentioned, the Intel build of 10.4 was never released as a retail copy. Once again, this is because Mac OS Xs license agreement only allows you to run Mac OS X on Macs. I would like to give credit to the following sitesforums for helping to explain various pieces of the puzzle. This is mostly just a compilation of information available on different parts of the internet. Who knows maybe its still useful for certain developers who still need to test how things work on 10.4 without keeping an old power-hungry machine around that is capable of running it.

With that said, I really doubt Apple cares about such an old version of OS X these days, and I think creating a VM of it is a really cool thing to do for educational purposes. And technically, its against OS Xs license agreement to virtualize it (same with the non-server versions of 10.5 and 10.6).

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