Reminders about revisions and when to increase them

2020-06-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Hi all, I want to remind everyone about when you should increase a port's revision and when you should not. Please don't increase revisions unnecessarily because it wastes time on our build servers and on users systems. You SHOULD increase a port's revision if a user who already has the port

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 25, 2020, at 18:06, Michael wrote: > That's 10.15, that requires the root drive reformatting, with no compatible > driver for older systems, right? > > (Whether or not it's a better file system isn't the issue. 100% breaking > compatibility with everything older is a bad move.) Huh? On

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Michael
On 2020-06-25, at 3:52 PM, Perry Lee wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Michael wrote: >> (Apple's software license says I can run it on Mac hardware, right? It >> doesn't say that it has to be the raw OS, does it?) > > From the software license agreement for macOS Catalina [1]: "to

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Peter Varga
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, at 14:48, macpo...@parvis.nl wrote: > after my development mac mini died (and the time backup appeared to be > corrupt) i had to buy another mac. > now i have a 2013 imac that can run catalina, but sometimes i also need > 10.11 for older hardware and software, and 10.13

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Perry Lee
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Michael wrote: > (Apple's software license says I can run it on Mac hardware, right? It > doesn't say that it has to be the raw OS, does it?) >From the software license agreement for macOS Catalina [1]: "to install, use >and run up to two (2) additional copies

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Michael
On 2020-06-25, at 3:03 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * macpo...@parvis.nl: > >> i would like these 10.11 and 10.13 as vm guest under 10.15. > > Why as a VM guest? Have you considered installing and booting different > macOS versions on separate partitions of the same machine? You can even >

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Michael
If I wanted to run a vm of something at 10.12 or newer, on a host running 10.9.5, is it doable? If not: How well does 10.9.5 run as a guest on newer OS's? Keep in mind: 10.9.5 was really the last "low security sandbox", and newer OS's restrict things. 10.9.5 was the last "old audio model"

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Ralph Seichter
* macpo...@parvis.nl: > i would like these 10.11 and 10.13 as vm guest under 10.15. Why as a VM guest? Have you considered installing and booting different macOS versions on separate partitions of the same machine? You can even install macOS on external harddisks. Another option I find

Re: macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread Ken Cunningham
> after my development mac mini died (and the time backup appeared to be > corrupt) i had to buy another mac. > now i have a 2013 imac that can run catalina, but sometimes i also need 10.11 > for older hardware and software, and 10.13 for compatibilty with our other > macs. > > i would like

macos as vm guest

2020-06-25 Thread macports
after my development mac mini died (and the time backup appeared to be corrupt) i had to buy another mac. now i have a 2013 imac that can run catalina, but sometimes i also need 10.11 for older hardware and software, and 10.13 for compatibilty with our other macs. i would like these 10.11 and