macOS Mac Emulator?

[trey5498]

Does anyone happen to know of a decent and working Mac Emulator that will run on windows vista? I do not have a Mac at home and I want to be able to test my programs at home as well as work.

 

[Super Macho Man]

There isn't one, for better or worse.

 

[italiano40]

Does anyone happen to know of a decent and working Mac Emulator that will run on windows vista? I do not have a Mac at home and I want to be able to test my programs at home as well as work.

that would be illegal because Mac OSX can only run on Apple Hardware

 

[dukebound85]

you could always go the hackintosh route lol

 

[Consultant]

If you are doing work stuff at home, then ask your work to get you a Mac Mini, or just VNC into your work Mac.

 

[sord]

There isn't one, for better or worse.

PearPC is a PowerPC emulator that works for Mac OS X, Linux, etc. It's a little out of date, last version was December of 2005, but works none the less (http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/).

I'm not sure if VMWare, Virtual PC, or qemu support EFI, if they don't then the only way you can emulate Intel Mac OS X is "hackintosh"

It should be noted though that it is not legal to A) use OS X without a license, and B) use OS X on non-Apple hardware

 

[trey5498]

I have the license for it, however I did not know it was illegal to use with the hardware, figured as long as I wasn't trying to make money off it, I could install the purchased software that I bought anywhere I wanted.

 

[Chris Corbyn]

Don't try running PearPC these days.... it would be a complete waste of resources. PPC is very different from an intel architecture and emulating it is slow. VMWare can load hacked versions of intel OS X as a virtual machine. You can even use these same virtual machine images to create a dual boot on your PC between OS X and windows. As someone already said, Hackintosh 😉

Seriously though, get a mac mini. They're cheap and they're actually pretty decent little boxes if you've never owned a mac before. Pretty sure apple created the mac mini to encourage windows users into the apple market.

 

[MrRage]

VNC is going to be your best bet it looks like.

Just a side note but work can legally say they own what ever it is your working on because it is being done on a work computer during work time. So if it anything you really don't want taken away from you, leave it at home.