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Posted by kdawson on Friday April 30, 2010 @10:20AM from the macs-on-macs-oh-my dept.

milesw writes "In addition to a slew of new features, VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 offers experimental support for Mac OS X guests running on Apple hardware. Got to wonder whether Larry Ellison discussed this with Steve Jobs beforehand, given Apple's refusal to allow virtualizing their (non-server) OS."

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Re:With what host? (Score:5, Funny)

by camperdave ( 969942 ) writes: on Friday April 30, 2010 @10:45AM (#32044170) Journal

... with Windows ... running as the host OS on Mac hardware?

[Shudder]

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Re:With what host? (Score:5, Funny)

by Z34107 ( 925136 ) writes: on Friday April 30, 2010 @02:08PM (#32047178)

You shudder, but I'll see you one better: Our primary server at work is some kind of Mac tower with two quad-core Xeon processors. It runs Windows Server 2008 R2 which in turn uses Virtual Box to host CentOS VMs for routing, DHCP/DNS, a LAMP stack, and a firewall.
Linux on Windows on Mac. We call it "Turducken."

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