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> 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 are

• 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