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uaecasher

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Jan 29, 2009
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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
 
why is that and is there anyway i can trick it to think that the desktop version is a server version?
thanks

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
 
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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