Developer gets OS X on Linux server working with Qemu and KVM

A software developer has managed to run OS X Mavericks based on the Qemu and KVM hypervisors. This theoretically allows Apple’s operating system to run as a virtual machine on a dedicated Linux server.

Developer Will Evans has long tinkered with a number of shell scripts to get OS X Mavericks up and running on Qemu and KVM. This requires ISO images of OS X Mountain Lion and Mavericks, among other things, as well as a Linux server with an LVM-compatible kernel. Mountain Lion must first be installed, after which Mavericks can be placed in a container. A number of adjustments must also be made for Qemu.

Evans admits it’s probably not entirely legal to virtualize OS X in this way; he therefore argues that the method described is intended solely for “educational purposes” in which he successfully attempted to virtualize OS X at the server level.

Virtualization of OS X is not supported by Apple by default and the operating system is therefore intended for its own systems, according to the company. Despite this, there is a ‘Hackintosh’ move that makes the operating system run on regular PCs.