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make mac os x vm

uaecasher

uaecasher

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hello,

I have read that parallels and vmware fusion don't add vm of the "desktop" version of mac os x?

why is that and is there anyway i can trick it to think that the desktop version is a server version?

thanks
 
im not sure why they dont add the consumer version, im guessing there is some sort of legal issue with it here..
 
uaecasher said:
why is that and is there anyway i can trick it to think that the desktop version is a server version?
thanks
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it's against the ELUA to run osx under in a vm and vmware/osx generally doesn't let you do it. You can google it but I've not heard of anyone doing it
 
maflynn said:
it's against the ELUA to run osx under in a vm and vmware/osx generally doesn't let you do it. You can google it but I've not heard of anyone doing it
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howcome you can get server osx then? or will they get in trouble for that?

or is the server version exempt from this..
 
Rumor has it that Parallels and VMware both have working code to run OS X VMs, but won't add the code to their released products to stay on Apple's good side.

I have not been able to feed my install disks to either and create a working OS X installation directly, but I have had VMware OS X VMs that came from the hackintosh world. I have used Tiger 10.4.10 and Leopard 10.5.5. The problem for Apple is that the VM files work just as well on VMware Workstation on a PC running either Windows or Linux, and Apple doesn't want that.
 
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