OS X as Guest OS?

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by TinyApps.Org, Dec 6, 2006.

  1. TinyApps.Org

    TinyApps.Org Bit poster

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    Are there any plans to allow OS X as a Guest OS? It would be most helpful to be able to run OS X in a VM.

    Sincerely,

    Miles

    P.S. Please no comments about searching the forums, etc. I have tried to do so the last few days, but receive the following error: "An error occurred! Can not connect to search daemon"
     
  2. BladeRunner

    BladeRunner Junior Member

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    I would like to second that request. It would be quite helpful to be able to test a new version or a suspect application without needing to reboot for each test.
     
  3. Olivier

    Olivier Forum Maven

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    Nobody doubts that Parallels would do it quite easily, but that is legally undoable for now. Apple forbids this. It would open the door too easily to running Mac OS X in a VM hosted on a Windows computer for instance. Not something Apple wants (and I support them, but that is of no importance).

    And yes, you could use the Search feature...
    Just use the *right* search feature.
    Somehow the WEBSITE search (on top of the page) is broken.
    But the FORUMS search (the one between Calendar and New Post) do work nicely and quickly.
    ;-)
     
  4. TinyApps.Org

    TinyApps.Org Bit poster

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    Thanks

    Thanks for the reply, Olivier. Yes, I found the forum search link shortly after posting, though I still can't understand why the main search engine doesn't work. It is sad that the only reason why OS X cannot be a Guest OS is Apple's fear. Thank God Microsoft and Linux are not as fearful, otherwise Parallels would not exist.
     
  5. alkalifly

    alkalifly Hunter

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    Also, if the forum search engine ever is down, you can type your search terms into google along with site:forum.parallels.com and you will get results from the search page. I actually find this to be better than the search engine that is built in to the forum.
     

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