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I would imagine you'd need an ARM-based virtual machine. Perhaps QEMU could do it.

That said, it sounds like it might be a hassle to get that to work on a Mac.

I got the personal license of Mathematica for Mac a while ago and thought the price was reasonable for such a powerful system.

The only thing that was driving me nuts is that Mathematica does not work properly on a Retina display, which of course is a shame as text and graphics would look gorgeous. Support for that is only planned for the next major version, according to Wolfram (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/30104/10565).

I recently found a hacky fix: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/21158/10565

With that, Mathematica now looks fantastic on my MacBook Pro's built-in screen.

V10 is retina aware, and it's coming out soon.

Given how easy the quick fix is to apply, basic Retina support should really have been in a free minor-version update to 9, not in a presumably paid upgrade to 10, after a long wait.

I believe it required getting rid of some legacy libraries, which couldn't be achieved in a point release.

Getting an ARM VM running Raspbian with QEMU on OS X is surprisingly easy. It's not like KVM would help with ARM anyway, so Rasbian+QEMU on OS X is basically the same as on Linux.

Qemu can indeed do it. http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-wa...

I just made a virtual machine like that. It only has 256 MB of RAM, and the screen resolution is something ridiculously tiny when in X Window.

If I increase RAM, I get a black screen when launching the machine.

If I try -vga std (hoping to get better resolution) I get an error.

Makes sense.

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