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December 15

getting os x mountain lion to run in vmware on windows

hello, i am running windows 7 and would like to have os x mountain lion running in vmware. i looked at the app store and i can buy mountain lion, but the page says i need to have a mac already. is it possible to buy the cd image of mountain lion, and then mount it & install in vmware? Grandmaester90 (talk) 05:33, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can try, but it won't work, as OS X checks for hardware (even a specific computer model in some cases, according to VirtualBox documentation).--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:44, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it's definitely possible with the right computer although does generally require some modifications to both VMWare and OS X. The former because VMware disables this sort of thing as it's not supposed to be supported (but they still have all the stuff to support it because Fusion shares a lot of code I think), and OS X largely using OSx86 and similar works to to fix hardware checks and stuff. As said, you do need the right computer, many Intel and some recent AMD can be made to work with Intel ones usually being easier for obvious reasons. (Last I heard AMD wasn't supported on Mavericks yet but this was not long after release. I don't see any particular reason why an AMD kernel won't be released if anyone can bother with it.) However because of the questionable nature of doing this, I don't think you should expect any help here. Nil Einne (talk) 12:00, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Hackintosh.-gadfium 00:39, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Phone model

hi....

i would like to know what series the Nokia 105 is a part off i couldnt find it on wiki and or any place else — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.48.197.73 (talk) 06:53, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of Nokia products#3-digit series since 2011.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:56, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]