Re: [Sheflug] Is it possible to legally run Mac OS on a virtual machine?

[Dean Sas <dean@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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David Willington wrote:
> I've been playing with virtualisation, and one thing I'd like to do is to
> run a mac OS on my Ubuntu installation. Does anyone know if this can be
> legally done? Reading around, it looks like Mac software can only be run
> on mac hardware, even though (as far as I know) that hardware is now the
> usual stuff I run linux on. Neither Virtualbox nor Vmware seem to support
> it.

I remember reading that Apple only allow OSX Server edition to be
virtualised. No idea if it it's technically possible to install modern
intel versions of OSX on a virtual system but there was a ppc emulation
effort underway at one point.

Dean

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