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What do you mean? You can "virtualise every OS" on other platforms as well.
by adambyrtek 15y ago
What do you mean? You can "virtualise every OS" on other platforms as well.
- olefoo 15y agoYou cannot legally run OS X on anything other than Apple hardware. This gets really annoying when you want to set up a headless browser testing cluster because you can't virtualize any of the Mac OS's you might be targeting.
- nirvana 15y agoWell, you can set up some headless mac minis and run a variety of virtualized OS X instances on them. I personally don't see the advantage of using other hardware, Apple hardware is a better value to me. (I value reliability over lower initial price, and I don't find generic PC components to be cheaper for the same thing, nor to have adequate reliability. )
- olefoo 15y agoThat's pretty much what I've done when I needed to, don't get me wrong, I like Apple laptops and will be replacing my recently stolen Macbook Pro as soon as my budget allows; but being unable to launch an OS X vm is an inconvenience at times, and a completely unnecessary limitation.
- zobzu 15y agoShould also mention that the Mac visualizer them so damn slow. Cause yeah Ive a 2011 high end mac. And Vmware, parallels or vbox, they're all slower than on Windows and Linux Figures. I'm virtualizing OSX on PCs, I don't care that Apple put a virtual limitation saying "you've no right to do that! its our software!". It's just as broken as software patents. I pay for it, I use it as a please. Sue me. Funny than when it comes from Apple its ok and good reason to buy a Mac tho. Imagine if Microsoft did that? Really, just imagine it one second and how bad you'd hate them. Humans.