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Why can't you virtualize a Mac?
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If you own a copy I can't see why it should be illegal. It's breaking the EULA, but that doesn't make it illegal.
There are many reason's it's illegal.
Copyright infringement for one.
There are others.
Couldn't they change their licensing terms to allow OS X to run on virtual machines that run on apple hardware and still protect themselves?
Software/Web Development.
I would guess that if you want to run 10.5, but you want other versions for testing purposes. Just a guess.
With a clearer idea of what the topic starter wants to do, the OS X on x86 project is no longer relevant, but here is a link to their legal FAQ. Decide for yourself wether you agree with them, I was just stating that a project does exists.
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Legal
I got the impression somewhere that Apple was big on empowering computer users.
Most people wouldn't. But there are lots of reasons. Enough reasons that VMware has a market capitalization of about 20 billion dollars.
Didn't VMWare just show of software at MacWorld to allow you to Virtualize a Mac on a Mac? There was all this concern that it would allow Virtualization of OS X on a PC, but they guaranteed the author that to stay in Apple's good graces, that the OS X Virtualization code would not even be included in the PC version.
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I just did a search and can't find anything to that effect.
My first Mac is on the way and I am somewhat apprehensive about the Leopard stories I've read. But I also read a ton of horror stories about Vista and that works fine for me.
A developer might also need to test that an app still runs on 10.2.8 because enough users request it. It's hard to imagine a developer running anything earlier than Tiger, but relying on the SDKs isn't enough.
Waaaay less problems with Leopard than Vista, the poster was referring to the lack of customisability on OSX.
Reading forums is sure way to put you off any OS people post problems and its
a tiny minority,people dont come on here to post "ooh im so happy with my Mac/leopard'' and that must be god knows how many people