On 1/3/2015 4:00 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
It may be possible to take the whole resulting image and run it under VMWare Workstation (for Windows or Linux), but I haven't tried. VMWare Workstation is more though ($250).
So VMWare Workstation 11 can run MacOS X (e.g. Yosemite), but it requires getting a package from insanelymac.com called Unlocker (currently version 2.0.3) to patch VMWare. Had to try this, 'ya know, in the interest of science. :-) With VMWare Fusion (running on a Mac), no such hacks are needed. In either case, the whole virtual system is a just directory that can be zipped up and put on a drive, or copied over the internet.
I'd attach the screen shot of Yosemite running inside Windows 7 which is in (in my case) running in MacOS X Mavericks, but the mailing list will strip the image out.
So in the hypothetical case of a large virtual image with apps installed, in addition to various versions of VMWare (if one expects both hosts that provide Windows 7/8 and/or MacOS and/or Linux), one might stow away the Unlocker patch kit too.
I'd guess the same thing is possible with Parallels (a competing product) or even VirtualBox (which is open source), but I haven't tried those.
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