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The part of that EULA section that really gives me trouble is "...that is already running the Apple Software...". I want to run OSX in a VM on my MacBook Pro w
by Stratoscope 10y ago
The part of that EULA section that really gives me trouble is "...that is already running the Apple Software...".
I want to run OSX in a VM on my MacBook Pro with Windows as the host OS. I used to do it the other way around, boot into OSX and run Windows in a Parallels VM. These days most of my work is in Windows, especially VR work, so it's more practical to boot into Windows. (And I like Windows better than OSX anyway.)
But I still do need to test on OSX occasionally. In an ideal world, since I have VMware installed on Windows, I could just boot up an OSX VM.
But because of that one EULA phrase, OSX will never be supported by a commercial vendor like VMware or a large open source product like VirtualBox - even on Mac hardware!
This leaves booting back to OSX as the only way to run it, and rebooting back and forth is a real pain.
All I want to do is run my legally licensed Windows and legally licensed OSX, and have it be my own choice which one to run as the host OS.
- kristofferR 10y agoIt's pretty easy to solve that issue by applying a community made fix: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/339-unlocker/ http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/339-unlocker/
- Stratoscope 10y agoThank you very much! That looks like a perfect solution for me. I especially like the fact that it's Python source code, so I can look at the code and get some sense of comfort that it doesn't have anything sketchy in it.
- y4mi 10y agohe'll still be in violation of the EULA though...
- Stratoscope 10y agoI'm not too worried about that. I doubt if Apple will get on my case for running OSX on my MacBook Pro!
- geofft 10y agoThere is a "VMware Unlocker" tool of extremely questionable legality that can enable running OS X as a guest of VMware Player / Workstation on Windows.
- snuxoll 10y agoThe unlocker tool sits in the usual legal gray area of software mods, of course running macOS on non-Apple hardware is against the EULA.