On Nov 7, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2011, at 12:44 AM, LuKreme wrote: > > > Apple has had a year to do the right thing and grant at least Snow Leopard > Server license holders a revised license to run SL in VM on non-Apple > hardware. They have not done the right thing. It could cost them zero > hardware sales, and yet they persist in holding the keys and refusing VM on > non-Apple hardware. Such VM support would be vastly easier than even > non-support of but allowing installation on actual non-Apple hardware. Yet > they aren't allowing it. > > >> >>> But if they were going to do that, why maintain a proprietary EFI >>> implementation instead of fully embracing UEFI and the right to dual boot? >> >> I don't know why they've been slow to move to UEFI. Perhaps it means >> rewriting their EFI boot managers, target disk mode, network boot, etc. >> Perhaps there is some other reason. > > I don't know why either but it would appear to be rather incompatible with > the suggestion the OS is going to be allowed to run on non-Apple hardware.
There is an easy answer for it. The cost for them to do so (allow it to run in VMs on non apple HW OR to upgrade the EFI) in support (if they allow it they will have to support it) is not currently worth it to Apple. They will probably get around to an updated EFI of some sort but probably won't do the VM thing. Not worth it to them in terms of support. Remember, if it has an Apple on it, Apple wants to provide the best UX it can. No half-assed UX. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
