To get a quick idea of where we're headed, check out the video above, which demonstrates my Windows 7 system running OS X and Ubuntu through VirtualBox.

If you're on Windows, need to use OS X, but don't want to buy or build a new computer, reader Bobby Patton shows us how to run Snow Leopard in a virtual machine on Windows with just a few tweaks.

It wasn't a VirtualBox limitation, but an OS X... I know that VMWare won't let me create a VM of 10.6 unless it is from 10.6 Server install media.

A new beta build of VirtualBox, Sun’s Oracle’s free x86 virtualization software, makes it possible to run Mac OS X as a guest operating system…no shenanigans or flaming hoops to jump through ...

VirtualBox, being a free and open-source virtualization software, provides an excellent platform for running Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware.

Mac OS X users have yet another virtualization option now that Innotek has announced a Mac version of its VirtualBox software. VirtualBox was previously available to Windows and Linux users and ...

Virtualizing Mac OS X Server with Virtual Box On Monday Oracle released version 3.2 of their VirtualBox software, which was part of their recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Other Mac OS X-specific improvements include the addition of ACPI host power status reporting and the ability to pause running VMs when your Mac is put to sleep and resume the paused VMs on wake.