
Windows/Mac/Linux: Free virtualization tool VirtualBox, technically Oracle VM VirtualBox now, has quietly added "experimental support for Mac OS X guests" to a beta release. That's good news—at least for Mac owners, and those willing to dig into serious Hackintosh tweaks.

Mac owners looking to try out buggy software or keep entire other OS X installations handy will see the main benefit from having OS X as a guest on their Mac hardware. VirtualBox won't do much to make Apple's operating system work on non-Apple hardware, but from what we've seen around the net, we'd bet VirtualBox's opening of this can of worms will lead to some nifty, Hackintosh-style work-arounds that will get a Mac running on Windows/Intel hardware.


Also new in VirtualBox's 3.2 beta is support for deleting machine snapshots while the machine is running, multi-monitor support for guest systems, and quite a few 64-bit fixes and updates noted in the forum post below. If you want to skip right to downloading the binaries, you can do so at this text-riffic download page.

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VirtualBox 3.2 beta is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. If you already know of some neat and, shall we say, unofficial OS X work-arounds that make use of VirtualBox, tell us about them in the comments.

VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released [VirtualBox Forums via Download Squad]