Is there a legal way of running OSX virtually?

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As title really. I want to get some experience of running OSX in a Domain environment as some things I am not used to.

I have an iMac but need to run the virtual servers on this too, so also need a virtual OSX machine I can then boot and join the domain.

Any help appreciated.
 
You will be breaking apples terms by running it on a virtual machine, but if you have the OS Virtual box will work with some tweaking.
 
Thanks for the replies. i'll have a look at Vietualbox then. I normally use Fusion but I think that blocks OSX.
 
apeksdiver said:
You will be breaking apples terms by running it on a virtual machine, but if you have the OS Virtual box will work with some tweaking.
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Running MacOS in a VM on MacOS is explicitly allowed by Apple. Running it on top of another OS is not allowed.
 
Thanks. Yes, had another Google and realised as long as I run it on a Mac it is all above board.VMware fusion also supports it too having dug a bit deeper so problem solved all round :)
 
Out of interest and as a slight hijack, my Mac Pro has two hard drives in it, one with SL installed and the other with ML. I tend to use ML but every now and then need to pop back to SL. Can I boot my existing SL install in Virtualbox, or another program inside ML?
 
I read an article the other day about a guy who has server racks full of 10's if not 100's of Mac Minis all running as test environments for developers. I couldn't help thinking why you wouldn't just virtualize the whole lot, but then I remembered the OSX licensing terms.
 
theheyes said:
I read an article the other day about a guy who has server racks full of 10's if not 100's of Mac Minis all running as test environments for developers. I couldn't help thinking why you wouldn't just virtualize the whole lot, but then I remembered the OSX licensing terms.
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Although as suggested above, and I've since found out, since 10.7 both client and server OSX CAN be legally virtualised if running on Apple hardware. Not done much yet to see how it performs though!
 
bloodiedathame said:
Out of interest and as a slight hijack, my Mac Pro has two hard drives in it, one with SL installed and the other with ML. I tend to use ML but every now and then need to pop back to SL. Can I boot my existing SL install in Virtualbox, or another program inside ML?
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According to the info I eventually found, and other posts, only Snow Leopard Server can be LEGALLY virtualised.
Lion and Mountain Lion work though and are Ok if running on Apple hardware. I think there is also a stipulation it should be a retail copy you use too, rather than the original installed OSX but haven't confirmed that.
 
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