VMware Player and MAC OS X ?

BEN_UK · 10 Jun 2010 at 11:42

Hello,

I have a Windows XP computer that i run VMWare player on to play around with different operating systems.

Is it possible to installed MAC OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 as a virtual machine with VMware player on a windows computer ??

Thanks Ben

NickK · 10 Jun 2010 at 23:01

If you want to run OSX in a VM then you will, according to the licensing, need to use the server edition of OSX.

theheyes · 10 Jun 2010 at 23:19

Surely that's not true for non-Apple hardware though? If you could do that someone could create a thin hypervisor and bingo - instant legal hackintosh running OSX server.

NickK · 10 Jun 2010 at 23:34

OSX Server = Apple Hardware & VMable OSX. According to the OSX licence. So yes, to run OSX you require Apple hardware according to the license.

Ghost-Reaper · 11 Jun 2010 at 10:06

I found a vm for snow leopard a while ago that ran on vmware player, it was unbelievably slow and really buggy, I wouldn't recommend it.

BEN_UK · 12 Jun 2010 at 15:22

Thanks for the info.

Not going to bother seems its not possible or its very hard to get going.

Might just buy a Macbook pro

Thanks Ben