OS X guest?

Tried to search this in previous posts but couldn't find anything on it...

Is it possible to run OS X as a guest OS on an OS X host? I want to do some network programming in OS X, and testing would be greatly simplified if I could test network logic locally between the host and a VM running OS X.

I already tried installing OS X using FreeBSD as the guest OS type, but the VM doesn't boot from the OS X install DVD.

kr, Wouter

 

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Apple have put a big bad licencing straight jacket on OSX that says Apple hardware only.

If the nice peple at Parallels made OSX run on virtual hardware, then the big Apple would swallow them up. A lot like "Attack of the killer tomatoes", but with apples.
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Ok but what if it is on Apple hardware?

Ok, here's a question: say I have OS X 10.4 and then 10.5 comes out.

I want to run 10.5 for all the latest tricks, but there is some program which only runs in 10.4 (for whatever reason).

Assuming all of this is running on Apple hardware, why not allow this?

 

It should work with *hacked* versions of MacOS such as those that install on generic PCs, see osx86project.org. But it's *completely* illegal.

 

If Parallels were to emulate Mac hardware so precise that Mac OS X could not tell the difference, or somehow pass the "is this a real Mac? check to the real hardware, it would not violate Apple's license since it's being installed on a Mac, right?

But aside from that issue, that's a lot of programming to make that happen.