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IIRC, it's even worse than that, the EULA forbids running OSX as a guest OS under a host OS that is not OSX.
by glandium 10y ago
IIRC, it's even worse than that, the EULA forbids running OSX as a guest OS under a host OS that is not OSX.
- awalton 10y agoI don't think this is correct - the Mac OS X server license said as long as it was running on Xserve hardware you were okay - we run and support macOS VMs on ESXi: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000131 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langu...
- wila 10y agoThe linked KB article only talks about VMware Fusion not ESXi :) I am aware about the statement that ESXi running on Mac Hardware is supposed to be legal. However if you install bootcamp on your hardware, install Windows in the bootcamp partition and then use VMware Workstation/Player to try and run OS X / macOS you can't. That is not legal. This has always confused me. apple hardware -> ESXi -> macOS == OK apple hardware -> macOS -> Fusion -> macOS == OK apple hardware -> Windows -> Workstation -> macOS == not OK
- glandium 10y agoIIRC, Mac OS X server had a different EULA, and there hasn't been a server edition for several releases of OS X anyways.
- BHSPitMonkey 10y agoThe solution is simple: Virtualize macOS on Linux, and then Virtualize macOS on your macOS VM. The inner guest is totally legitimate!