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Parvardigar
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VM Player with Legal OS Mac

Hello

I suffer from inexperience with cross platform capabilities.

In the past I had Windows 7 with VMPlayer running Windows XP. Then Microsoft ceased all support of XP. The company removed XP from all VM Players.

I want to know and links to support would be helpful - with Windows 7 can I install Mac OS the current version into VM Player? and if so is this legal?

I have read comments from years ago indicating that the Mac OS EULA prohibits installation of the OS except on machines with Mac hardware.

My impression those Mac restrictions may have changed - that the newest version of Mac OS - one can install Mac on a PC running Windows 7.

My objective is to use  Windows 7 for Navision, Microsoft Office, and Abode Master Collections - and if possible to run let's say Yosemite in a VM Player.
That would open possibilities having two worlds easily within access.

Thanks for any help

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schepp
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Hi,

how did you get the impression that this has changed?

I don't think by reading the Yosemite EULA: http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1010.pdf

Because it still states:

The grants set forth in this License do not permit you to, and you agree not

to, install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do

so.

So you still need apple hardware

Tim

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Parvardigar
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Yep

Need to be disciplined - and keep it all legal.

Thanks!

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Tim Scheppeit <

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WoodyZ
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VMware does not support the running of OS X under VMware Player/Workstation!  Also, running legally virtualizable versions of OS X in a Virtual Machine may only be done when done on Apple-branded hardware and when done while running under OS X and for that you need VMware Fusion not VMware Player/Workstation, otherwise you're violating the Apple SLA for that product.  Therefore no help can be provided to you for OS X in this use case scenario as it would violate VMware Community Terms of Use to do so.

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