osx in virtual machine on a mac IS DOABLE

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vinneh

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The license terms for osx say that you are alowed to run it on "apple branded hardware"
provided you are running the software on a host envirionment that is apple branded, i.e YOUR MAC, you are not violating any license.
 
the wish is to allow osx to run in a vm, so for example, if you run windows on your mac, you can run osx inside a vm. virtual hardware is SOFTWARE. if you run osx on a virtual machine, AS LONG AS ITS ON A MAC, you are not violating the license. Im saying this because someone else asked for this and was ridiculed by someone who obviously had not read the license agreement for OSX.
 
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VM hardware is NOT software. It is virtualised HARDWARE.

This topic has been extensively discussed on these forums.

It is in direct contravention of the Apple licencing straight jacket, to run OSX in a virtualised environment.
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vinneh said:
the wish is to allow osx to run in a vm, so for example, if you run windows on your mac, you can run osx inside a vm. virtual hardware is SOFTWARE. if you run osx on a virtual machine, AS LONG AS ITS ON A MAC, you are not violating the license. Im saying this because someone else asked for this and was ridiculed by someone who obviously had not read the license agreement for OSX.
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Vinneh,
constant is right. It is a contraditcion of the licensing terms. Maybe you could argue that part, but read the whole... The parts you are ignoring are surely what the courts will be seeing in the briefs.
 
The bottom line is that we need to convince Apple of our desires and needs to see this functionality and then either let Parallels implement it or they themselves put it forth in Leopard. Who knows, perhaps we'll see this come to pass soon.

Also, ZFS has some interesting implications in terms of it would be neat to be able to run an image of your current OS in a previous snapshot in time. Great for truly stepping back in time and actually using an instance of your operating system from a previous time which really has no limit with ZFS... Parallels could certainly make use of this as a VMware snapshot killer as it would offer a much more robust snapshot function for OS images.
 
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