RE: VMware Mac virtualization

[johndo3]

hi,

is there a vmware product out there for windows machines that can create a virtual machine for the mac os in particular tiger 10.4.10 and for the upcoming leopard 10.5.

thanks.

[constant]

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Nope, and it's not likely to happen any time soon.

You see, Apple have this licencing straight jacket in place that is central to their whole ethos of doing business.

Apple have written code into their operating systems that only allow it to run on specific hardware.

Steve Jobs may well be highly innovative, and particularly brilliant, but he's even more anal.

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[Andrew_Judge]

No it won't happen is correct. However, you can run Darwin on there because it should show up like BSD kernel and the binary translation is still in the vmkernel, just not supported I think. Kinda like SCO.

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[admin]

There is a legal and technical reason(s) you can't do this. The OS X EULA says you can only run it on Apple-branded hardware. The virtual hardware we present is generic, and arguably not "Apple hardware" even though (say with Fusion) the underlying hardware may be a Mac.

One technical problem is that OS X uses EFI, not the older BIOS standard. Since no VMware product currently supports EFI, you can't run OS X as a guest.

[RDPetruska]

>Since no VMware product currently supports EFI, you can't run OS X as a guest.

Might want to change that to "you can't run a retail (unpatched/unhacked) OS X as a guest", as it can[/b] be done - just not legally.

[johndo3]

thanks for the info.

[admin]

I know, but I don't want to promote the hacked versions. Hacked OS X is arguably not OS X, so my statement is sort of true