This isn’t a new thing, but just thought it’d be cool to try out. The developer version of OS X Tiger for Intel got leaked (of course!) and so the geeks wanted to run OS X on thier PCs now, and so they did!

When I heard you could do it in VMWare, I figured I didn’t have anything to lose!

This is running in VMWare 5 on my Dell Inspiron 9100. I gave 512M of the 1GB RAM to OS X. It’s still slow and seems that networking in VMWare isn’t working yet.

To speed up things I found this post: “Want to speed up the performace under vmware? 1) Use ‘Linux, Other Linux’ as the Guest OS type, not Other or FreeBSD. 2) From inside the VM’s BIOS, disable the floppy controller and the two serial ports.” That did help speed up the system.

Can’t do too much as a serious system, but cool to play around with!

If you want more info check out the OSx86 Project.

Oh, and if you happen to get “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″, be sure to use a good decompressor. At first I couldn’t get the 6GB tiger-x86-flat.img file to expand past 2GB - IZArc didn’t give any errors, just only 2GB file. I tried WinRAR 3.5 and that did the trick!