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Is this recent? This looks like a game changer for the rentable mac instance business if there's some movement in the licensing landscape. I was watching the g

Is this recent? This looks like a game changer for the rentable mac instance business if there's some movement in the licensing landscape. I was watching the github actions launch issue around macOS to see how they would handle the licensing issue[1]. In the end GH/MS didn't comment due to some "NDA" -- would be easy to state if they went the license route so... [0]: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1814 https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1814 [1]: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2604 https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2604

pdpi 5y ago
The page says "Availability: macOS 12.0", and that was released in October, so yeah, pretty recent!
easton 5y ago
Licensing didn’t change with 12.0, but the Macs you rent can now run multiple instances of macOS, which is nice I guess.
- musicale 5y ago
  AWS/EC2 offers x86 and M1 macOS machines as instances which you can rent in 24-hour increments. I could imagine them slicing those machines using virtualization, licenses permitting (apparently the 24 hour requirement is from Apple's license agreement.)
  - saagarjha 5y ago
    Amazon offers bare-metal hardware, to my knowledge. I think MacStadium does too.
cpuguy83 5y ago
Before Monterey's virtualization framework there was the hypervisor framework. It is a lot lower level and would be what the virtualization framework is built on top of.