Hi, Legalities aside, os x will only run on a subset of available x86 hardware - and i've not heard of anyone successfully running it on a distributed / cloud / virtual / non-physical environment. There are plenty of successful builds using core2duo and recently some i7 / nehalem successes, but it seems to rely on the willingness to buy the hardware to match what apple supports.
AFAICT Apple uses their operating system to drive hardware sales (which is where they really make their money) and are completely opposed to running OS X except on Apple hardware - although as recent advances in the hackintosh project can let you run an unmodified version of OS X (ie, not violate the DMCA) i'm not sure about wether they can enfore their preference ... it likely depends on what country you're living in. As far as i can tell, you could build numerous monster i7 servers for the cost of a Powermac if you were so inclined, and prepared to do your homework, but I'd forget about virtual / cloud computing and OS X. If I end up going ahead and building an OS X workstation, I'll post my findings. The standard disclaimer applies: this information is collated from spurious internet sources. I know nothing first hand. - David Lee On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Mark Wotton <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's worth a try, I suppose, but I was really hoping to test this > stuff properly some time before the next sydney meetup... > > mark > > On 01/09/2009, at 5:16 PM, Clifford Heath wrote: > > > > > Has anyone thought about actually *asking Apple*? > > > > I asked Microsoft whether they'd provide cloud-hosted > > SQL server instances for the Rails SQL Server adapter > > folk to use as a CI server, and they were very willing to > > help. I personally didn't pursue it, but passed it on... but > > if MS is so helpful, why wouldn't Apple be? > > > > Clifford Heath. > > > > On 01/09/2009, at 5:07 PM, Mark Wotton wrote: > > > >> > >> Just a login account or two would be fantastic :) > >> (I want to make sure JHC stays working on the Mac, and it's easiest > >> if > >> John has access too...) > >> > >> mark > >> > >> On 01/09/2009, at 4:23 PM, Gareth Townsend wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> I know this guy, with about 110 x-serves... > >>> On 01/09/2009, at 4:03 PM, Mark Wotton wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 01/09/2009, at 3:58 PM, Gareth Townsend wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> oh. and apparently the vmware solution isn't one :/ illegal to > >>>>>> run > >>>>>> mac software on anything but a big shiny machine with a picture > >>>>>> of > >>>>>> fruit on it. > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm pretty sure if your big shiny Apple Machine runs OS X Server, > >>>>> then > >>>>> you can have as many OS X server VMWare images running on it as > >>>>> you > >>>>> want. > >>>>> > >>>>> Whether that helps or not I don't know. > >>>> > >>>> Don't think EC2 runs any big shiny apple machines, sadly. > >>>> If I had a big shiny mac server of my own, I wouldn't need to run > >>>> VMware in the first place. > >>>> > >>>> That said, if anyone wants to volunteer a login account on a beasty > >>>> Mac server to aid the development of JHC and Hubris, please mail > >>>> me... > >>>> > >>>> mark > >>>> > >>>>> > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Gareth Townsend > >>> http://www.garethtownsend.info > >>> http://www.melbournecocoaheads.com > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> > >> > >> > >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- cheers, David Lee --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
