Hi Andreas Thank you! This eases my until-now vaguely guilty conscience. I run Leopard and Snow leopard VMs under VirtualBox on my MacPro (which runs MountainLion). The MacPro came with SnowLeopard but I bought upgrades to Lion and then MountainLion via the app store.
I installed the VMs from separately-bought DVDs so I felt free entirely to use the separately-bought installers elsewhere, because I'd be using each installer only once. However, I had read that it wasn't legal to use macOS in virtual setups. Not that this stopped me - I had bought the license to use the software. So long as I used each installer/licence in only one place at any time, then it felt legitimate to use it whereever I wanted. (Just as if I buy a washing machine, I can install it in whatever room I like.) End of waffle Bruce On 8 Jun 2013, at 16:58, Mac User #330250 <macuser330...@gmx.net> wrote: > ---------- Original message ---------- > Subject: Re: Upgrade to what > Date: Saturday, 08. June 2013 > From: Bruce Ryan <bruce.r...@me.com> > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >> Other thought - a modern mac will have the best hardware guarantees, and it >> is possible (though maybe not strictly legal) to make Leopard virtual >> machines under VirtualBox, running on MountainLion. So you'd have the OS >> you're used to, running at the speed of an up-to-date bit of hardware. And >> you'd have the opportunity to buy modern versions of your software as and >> when you want or can afford to. > > Actually it is legal. It is legal to run Mac OS X under a real Mac, provided > you acquired a license to do so. This means that you have to buy Snow Leopard > in addition to the Mac that comes with e.g. Lion or Montain Lion. > > A downgrade-option or some kind of automatic agreement to run Snow Leopard > virtually under a newer version of OS X does not exist. > > So, what is legal? > 1) Get a modern Mac with Lion or newer. > 2) Get Mac OS X 10.6. > 3) Install it virtually on a Mac. (VirtualBox for example, which is free) > 4) Run your PowerPC Mac OS X applications on Rosetta of your virtualized Snow > Leopard. > > BTW, you could also virtually run Leopard or Tiger/Intel for that cause. > > FYI starting from Lion it actually IS legal to virtualize it on a Mac as a > second free license. So, if you have a Mac that came with Lion, it is legal > to > virtually install Lion a second time (on the same Mac, inside a Virtual > Machine). But this right did not exist under Snow Leopard and prior versions > of OS X. > > Cheers, > Andreas aka Mac User #330250 > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
