yasamoka wrote
core dump wrotewell best and cheapest way to use osx on a pc under linux or windows is via virtualbox download the program (it's free) pop in the osxcd in your drive and create a new virtual machine running osx
I don't think it's that easy. Any links?
On the contrary actually it's very simple , you don't need links , i've had osx running on my pcs for more than 2 years under both linux (mandriva) and windows ,

how to do it ,
1) download virtualbox install it on your system
2) get a osx cd from any apple shop the real deal original cd seels for about 150,000 to 200,000 at ny apple dealer.
3) Depending on your pc dvd reader/writer , pop in the osx cd in your drive and when you start virtual box , create a new virtual machine and tell it to boot from cd , when it does you can easily install the osc in your virtual machine .
4) alternatively , you get hold of an iso packager , creat single file iso image of the osx cd copy that iso file to your pc and boot the new virtual machine from that iso file to install osx.

Bare in mind virtualboix is free stuff , however there's also a nicer program called vimware which works more or less like virtualbox but this one cost a bit of money , it is worth it.

Good luck
Ohh, nice!

I will try something similar then!
4 months later
@Neeeds you can install mac on a windows pc if you have the right hardware in your laptop, please read my answer. And you can get the Mac for free on torrent websites.
This statement was correct over seven years ago. However, in the summer of 2006, Apple announced the shift from PowerPC to the Intel x86 architecture. A patched OS X can run on any hardware. You'll run into some problems, but theoretically, it should work fine.
Neeeds wroteHello guys,
you can't virtulise Mac os on a Windows pc because the pc architecture isn't the same and Apple will not allow you to do it.
the only way to virtulise a Mac OS is on a Mac pc ( can't figure the use of it )
hope my post had helped you
On top of what samer says, any decent (not Virtualbox) virtualization solution will be able to emulate other architectures. Emulating PowerPC is super easy to do regardless of which hardware or operating system you're running underneath.
the only way to virtulise a Mac OS is on a Mac pc ( can't figure the use of it )
Even if that statement was true, there's still a lot of use cases where you'd like to virtualize a Mac inside a Mac. Off the top of my head:
  • Testing a new configuration that may break your system.
  • Installing a package in a sandboxed environment to avoid polluting your system.
  • Develop a networking solution where you need working on 2 or more clients.
And these are just the obvious cases. You may come across specific business requirements that would have you running computation in a virtual environment. It's not that uncommon for me to run VMs inside other VMs.

Virtualization has many use cases, not just for the casual user to test a separate OS.