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ITidiots open forum > EFI-X Mac Booter, A Scam

Apparently these EFI-X units are nothing more that a USB stick with code from the OSX86 community (patched up OSX). Yeap, nothing more than a $10 Cortex M3 from STMicroelectronics and opensource code box up and sold for over $200, which doesn't work very well.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asem-efix-mac-chameleon,8617.html

January 4, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

I'm testing a VMWare VM of Snow Leopard on Windows 7....If it works, I'll post the link to the step by step solution.

January 5, 2010 | Registered CommenterGreg Fyn

Greg i saw how to do this a few days ago.

here are the instructions

http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/12/install-snow-leopard-in-vmware-7-windows-edition/

its still limited, things are broken

January 5, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

I have a feeling that Virtual Box supports EFI...

January 5, 2010 | Registered CommenterJamie

Yes it does.

Apple geeks think EFI is a Apple thing, it isn't Intel developed it originally for the PC platform to replace the BIOS.

January 5, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

So in theory, I could run Mac OS (EX, oh! oh! I said "ex" not "10"!!) (god forbid) on my laptop running VirtualBox. Obviously, my laptop is 32bit, it would be slow, it would break apple's "Terms & Conditions" (they might track me down and I might just suddenly 'disappear' overnight and be rolled up in a carpet and thrown in a canal).

Would it boot? Or would it need that extra -X?

As you can see, I am a bit Anti-Apple... apart from iPods, which are the best things since sliced bread... love them...

January 6, 2010 | Registered CommenterJamie

Does virtual box allow 64bit guest OS's on a 32bit host OS? I know that VMware can as long as you have compatible 64bit hardware. I suppose it should do.

in theory you could, however, i don't know if you would require extra patching and custom drivers (that may not be out there) to get it working. OSX contains drivers for apple hardware, although you can add third-party graphic cards if the drivers are available from the manufacture.

Yes its against apples T&C's anyway

January 7, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

It would be quite interesting, I think some Unix OSes require EFI, so it makes sense to include it as an option.

I know I have 64bit compatible hardware as my control panel says so (64bit Capable), so it would be good to try...

January 10, 2010 | Registered CommenterJamie

there is actually a utility you can run to test this , you can download it from the vmware server tools page.

its called something like test64bitguest.exe or something like that. I did use it about two years ago.

most PC based *nixs use LILO, GRUB or an equivalent boot loader.

The EFI standard had ideas about extensions such as preboot antivirus none of which has taken off.
I couldn't really care less about EFI at the moment.

January 10, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

I've never had to use it. The description that VirtualBox gives is "Required for some special oses"

January 11, 2010 | Registered CommenterJamie