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There are a lot of ways to DoS a commercial build service. If you let people execute arbitrary code on your machine, you better have logging in place to know wh

There are a lot of ways to DoS a commercial build service. If you let people execute arbitrary code on your machine, you better have logging in place to know who is responsible if your machine crashes. I'd assume that most build farms build on VMs to avoid exactly this kind of problem -- building on bare metal seems pretty risky.

oneweekwonder 9y ago
> most build farms build on VMs Are one allowed to run macOS on a VM that is not apple hardware. Can you just buy macOS and run it on a vm, or is it a gray area?
- ahakki 9y ago
  iirc macOS is only licensend to run on Apple hardware.
  - ctime 9y ago
    ..and only a single copy, it appears. These links are fun: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/README.md http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/#sec_4 http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/#sec_4
- princekolt 9y ago
  Well, either case you can still run the VMs on a real macOS machine. I assume crashing the VM should not crash the host, in most cases, unless there's a bug in the virtualization software, right?
- wil421 9y ago
  You can absolutely run OSX on a VM and they even allow you to do it. Running it on a production sever is likely a gray area. People build Hackintoshes. I’ve personally run OSX VMs on both windows and macs and built a Hackintosh. Note I am saying OS X, haven’t done this since MacOS.
- eridius 9y ago
  No you cannot run it on non-apple hardware. The SLA¹ for macOS 10.13 allows you to run up to 2 additional copies of macOS in virtual machines on your existing Mac hardware. So each Mac can run up to 3 copies of the OS in total. You may not run it on non-Mac hardware. ¹http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1013.pdf http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1013.pdf

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There are a lot of ways to DoS a commercial build service. If you let people execute arbitrary code on your machine, you better have logging in place to know wh

by jakobegger 9y ago

oneweekwonder 9y ago
> most build farms build on VMs Are one allowed to run macOS on a VM that is not apple hardware. Can you just buy macOS and run it on a vm, or is it a gray area?
- ahakki 9y ago
  iirc macOS is only licensend to run on Apple hardware.
  - ctime 9y ago
    ..and only a single copy, it appears. These links are fun: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/README.md http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/#sec_4 http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/#sec_4
- princekolt 9y ago
  Well, either case you can still run the VMs on a real macOS machine. I assume crashing the VM should not crash the host, in most cases, unless there's a bug in the virtualization software, right?
- wil421 9y ago
  You can absolutely run OSX on a VM and they even allow you to do it. Running it on a production sever is likely a gray area. People build Hackintoshes. I’ve personally run OSX VMs on both windows and macs and built a Hackintosh. Note I am saying OS X, haven’t done this since MacOS.
- eridius 9y ago
  No you cannot run it on non-apple hardware. The SLA¹ for macOS 10.13 allows you to run up to 2 additional copies of macOS in virtual machines on your existing Mac hardware. So each Mac can run up to 3 copies of the OS in total. You may not run it on non-Mac hardware. ¹http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1013.pdf http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1013.pdf