A small addition:

VBox is mostly OpenSource, so, if you need to add support for Apple-HW, you 
could write that code yourself.... The pieces, that aren't OpenSource might not 
be needed for such an approach... But I might be wrong here...

   Matthias

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> Von: Matthias Pfützner <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: 22.3.'10,  21:32
> 
> You (JD) wrote:
>> I see. So, I go to an Apple store, I buy Snow Leopard DVD,
>> I install it on my Dell and I am now a criminal?
>> That is worse than laughable!
> 
> It's the same with copy-protected DVDs. If you DO copy those, you're doing
> illegal things.
> 
> Same here. Apple includes CODE inside the MacOS to make sure, it does NOT run
> on non-apple hardware. "Breaking" that by hackintosh et.al. is illegal.
> 
> Whether Apple is going to persue these sue-ing options is a totally different
> story...
> 
> So, if you really want to run MacOS on VBOX, you need to "hackintosh" the Snow
> Leopard SOFTWARE, and Bob's your uncle. Has been done already, AFAIK, so, why
> should Sun "mimick" a Mac in the VBox HW-Layer? Simply to support illegal
> doing?
> 
> No need to be sued by apple for some-such stuff... There's a better use of
> that money...
> 
> Think first, read first, before asking for such "silly" things... ;-)
> 
>         Matthias
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