Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-10-01 Thread Unman
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 06:29:10AM -0700, nhe...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 4:39:40 AM UTC+8, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > On 06/17/2016 04:11 AM, Drew White wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sunday, 15 May 2016 14:05:50 UTC+10, Jeremy Rand wrote:
> > >
> > > FWIW, I think a legal argument could be made that such license
> > > agreements are anti-competitive and therefore unenforceable.
> > >  However,
> > > I am unaware of any specific precedent for this argument, so it would
> > > indeed probably be unwise for ITL to violate the license agreement
> > > unless their goal is to win the inevitable lawsuit and thus achieve a
> > > beneficial precedent.  (And while that would be laudable, I would
> > > definitely not blame ITL if they decided that such activities are not
> > > worth their effort or budget.)
> > >
> > > (And of course, I'm not a lawyer.)
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement or
> > > anything for me wanting to run it.
> > 
> > Yeah you are.  Check the licensing terms for the Mac OS X software that
> > came with it.
> 
> FWIW - I have a MacBook Pro with OS X. I want to run qubes on my MacBook Pro, 
> and OS X inside qubes. OS X is the running on genuine Apple hardware. No 
> license agreements broken. Cheers.
> 
> I am not arguing that this is a good use case to work on for Qubes 
> developers, just saying that the license argument is untrue. 
> 
> Sadly, getting Qubes to run on Apple hardware isn't super easy either.
> 

Naturally, the situation isn't as simple as you suggest.

Apple licensing has altered from OSX version to version - it's pointless
to talk of this without specifying WHICH version you are talking about.
Also, most of the licenses are not transferable so if you acquired a
second hand MacBook you almost certainly wont have the benefit of the
"virtualization" clauses in later EULAs.

On your second point, it's easy to get Qubes running on SOME Apple
hardware - in my experience old MacBookPro6.2 works fine with 8GB RAM:
the i5s don't, of course support VT-X but are otherwise fine.




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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-10-01 Thread nheger
On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 4:39:40 AM UTC+8, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> On 06/17/2016 04:11 AM, Drew White wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, 15 May 2016 14:05:50 UTC+10, Jeremy Rand wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, I think a legal argument could be made that such license
> > agreements are anti-competitive and therefore unenforceable.
> >  However,
> > I am unaware of any specific precedent for this argument, so it would
> > indeed probably be unwise for ITL to violate the license agreement
> > unless their goal is to win the inevitable lawsuit and thus achieve a
> > beneficial precedent.  (And while that would be laudable, I would
> > definitely not blame ITL if they decided that such activities are not
> > worth their effort or budget.)
> >
> > (And of course, I'm not a lawyer.)
> >
> >
> > Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement or
> > anything for me wanting to run it.
> 
> Yeah you are.  Check the licensing terms for the Mac OS X software that
> came with it.

FWIW - I have a MacBook Pro with OS X. I want to run qubes on my MacBook Pro, 
and OS X inside qubes. OS X is the running on genuine Apple hardware. No 
license agreements broken. Cheers.

I am not arguing that this is a good use case to work on for Qubes developers, 
just saying that the license argument is untrue. 

Sadly, getting Qubes to run on Apple hardware isn't super easy either.

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-02 Thread Eric
On Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 5:09:05 PM UTC-7, Drew White wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 April 2017 10:31:36 UTC+10, Eric  wrote:
> > Most of the following removed for brevity:
> > 
> > On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 4:37:15 AM UTC-8, Achim Patzner wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Point is: You can't buy a valid license without buying a machine with 
> > > it. I guess you could buy *heaps* of Mac mini just to obtain licenses... 
> > > Just like having to buy defective power supplies to get MagSafe 
> > > connectors. And Apple does not attack the people breaking the licenses; 
> > > they are usually aiming at those who enable others to break them (which 
> > > I regard as a good thing). 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Achim 
> > 
> > 
> > Most of seems a bit misinformed (or at least very confusingly worded), and 
> > thankfully Apple's own SLA provides us with very direct answers: 
> > 
> > 
> > "B. License from Mac App Store. If you obtained a license for the Apple 
> > Software from the Mac App Store, then subject to the terms and conditions 
> > of this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules set forth 
> > in the App Store Terms and Conditions 
> > (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage Rules”), you are granted a 
> > limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license: 
> > 
> > [several sections removed for brevity] 
> > 
> > (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances 
> > of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each 
> > Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple 
> > Software." 
> > 
> > 
> > This is the license for the NON-SERVER version of Mac OS X Lion, 10.7, and 
> > every operating system since then has had a similar provision. This means 
> > that yes, you do need to run it on Apple hardware, but you can run up to 
> > three copies of OS X, or two in a virtual machine presuming you were using 
> > Xen or ESXi.
> > 
> > Macs have good VT-d and VT-x support, but since they don't use PS/2 for 
> > trackpad and keyboard, or have a TPM, it would be a terrible platform to 
> > run Qubes on (trust me, I've tried). Not to mention that HiDPI support is 
> > still a work in progress - I miss my retina display something awful.
> > 
> > 
> > Which brings us to the real question, how do we get this to work on Qubes 
> > today, on a non-Apple laptop? 
> > 
> > 1) accept that the developers will not work on making this happen, because 
> > Mac hardware is not a good target for Qubes unless something changes, and 
> > the dev's very limited time is much better spent elsewhere, especially 
> > given the potential for SLA abuse. I for one would much rather see Qubes 4 
> > ship, than have macOS patches land.
> > 
> > 2) accept *individual* responsibility for breaking a software license 
> > agreement. 
> > 
> > 3) try to make it work (not sure if those patches above still work in Xen 
> > 4.7, but Xen 4.7 might also have some of the newer code needed to make it 
> > work). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
> > Also accept that if you have to patch Xen with code downloaded from a 
> > mailing list, you're probably downgrading your dom0 security, and therefore 
> > the overall system security, by a fair amount.
> > 
> > 4) google a bunch (IIRC there is some info floating around on the QEMU 
> > mailing list that might help).
> > 
> > 5) celebrate or drink, depending on the outcome. possibly both.
> 
> 
> 
> The thing about the licensing is that IF you get permission from Apple to use 
> the OS under Qubes then you can. Even if it is not on Apple Hardware.
> 
> If you get permission to do so then you can. There is no issue there.
> 
> 1. The developers won't make it happen because they think it's breaking the 
> licensing to get permission to run it.
> 
> 2. It isn't breaking the agreement if you have permission from Apple to do 
> the specified things.
> 
> 3. I have patches and all that allow it to work in 3.0, all that one has to 
> do is update it to run properly on 4. But it can patch 3.1, however the 
> updates in 3.2 mean the patches need to be updated more.
> 
> 4. Why use Google "a bunch" when you can just look on this forum and read 
> this thread?
> 
> 5. Do both, because you should always celebrate both successes and failures.
> From failure, you learn, from success, not so much.

This thread has some interesting links, for example. (Though many things 
changed in Mavericks, and again in Sierra 10.12.4, so YMMV). Seems like the 
best option for now would be to try and get El Capitan running.

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-02 Thread Eric
On Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 5:09:05 PM UTC-7, Drew White wrote:
>
>
>The thing about the licensing is that IF you get permission from Apple to use 
>the OS under Qubes then you can. Even if it is not on Apple Hardware.


Good luck. Apple has not done this for ANYONE, even the big names, since Steve 
Jobs came back. That door is closed. The way is shut. For our purposes, it's 
not a real option.
>
>If you get permission to do so then you can. There is no issue there.
>
>1. The developers won't make it happen because they think it's breaking the 
>licensing to get permission to run it.
>
>2. It isn't breaking the agreement if you have permission from Apple to do the 
>specified things.

See the above. Short answer, if we can make it work such that it works on Apple 
laptops, no issue (and that work would likely carry over to non-Apple laptops, 
"incidentally" as it were.

>
>3. I have patches and all that allow it to work in 3.0, all that one has to do 
>is update it to run properly on 4. But it can patch 3.1, however the updates 
>in 3.2 mean the patches need to be updated more.

So let's make that happen. There's an active ticket open 
(https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1982) but I imagine it would 
require a fair piece of work. (and I sure as shit don't know enough about 
hypervisor underpinnings to even take a stab at that).

 
>4. Why use Google "a bunch" when you can just look on this forum and read this 
>thread?

Because there are additional resources that might contribute knowledge and help 
- specifically the ones involving OS X on QEMU.


>5. Do both, because you should always celebrate both successes and failures.
>From failure, you learn, from success, not so much.

*toasts*

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-02 Thread Eric
On Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 5:09:05 PM UTC-7, Drew White wrote:
> 
> 
> The thing about the licensing is that IF you get permission from Apple to use 
> the OS under Qubes then you can. Even if it is not on Apple Hardware.

Good luck. Apple has not done this for ANYONE, even the big names, since Steve 
Jobs came back. That door is closed. The way is shut. For our purposes, it's 
not a real option.
> 
> If you get permission to do so then you can. There is no issue there.
> 
> 1. The developers won't make it happen because they think it's breaking the 
> licensing to get permission to run it.
> 
> 2. It isn't breaking the agreement if you have permission from Apple to do 
> the specified things.

See the above. Short answer, if we can make it work such that it works on Apple 
laptops, no issue (and that work would likely carry over to non-Apple laptops, 
"incidentally" as it were.

> 
> 3. I have patches and all that allow it to work in 3.0, all that one has to 
> do is update it to run properly on 4. But it can patch 3.1, however the 
> updates in 3.2 mean the patches need to be updated more.

So let's make that happen. There's an active ticket open 
(https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1982) but I imagine it would 
require a fair piece of work. (and I sure as shit don't know enough about 
hypervisor underpinnings to even take a stab at that).

 
> 4. Why use Google "a bunch" when you can just look on this forum and read 
> this thread?

Because there are additional resources that might contribute knowledge and help 
- specifically the ones involving OS X on QEMU.


> 5. Do both, because you should always celebrate both successes and failures.
> From failure, you learn, from success, not so much.

*toasts*

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-02 Thread Vít Šesták
> The thing about the licensing is that IF you get permission from Apple to use 
> the OS under Qubes then you can. Even if it is not on Apple Hardware.

Sure. This, however, essentiually means you get a different license. Well, 
anything that the original license does not allow can be solved by licencing 
the software under a different license – provided that the vendor wishes to do 
so. But the key question is, how hard is it to get the license. I doubt Apple 
will give the license to anyone who asks. If they did, why would they put the 
restrictions on the standard license?

Regards,
Vít Šesták 'v6ak'

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-02 Thread Drew White
On Sunday, 2 April 2017 10:31:36 UTC+10, Eric  wrote:
> Most of the following removed for brevity:
> 
> On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 4:37:15 AM UTC-8, Achim Patzner wrote: 
> > 
> > Point is: You can't buy a valid license without buying a machine with 
> > it. I guess you could buy *heaps* of Mac mini just to obtain licenses... 
> > Just like having to buy defective power supplies to get MagSafe 
> > connectors. And Apple does not attack the people breaking the licenses; 
> > they are usually aiming at those who enable others to break them (which 
> > I regard as a good thing). 
> > 
> > 
> > Achim 
> 
> 
> Most of seems a bit misinformed (or at least very confusingly worded), and 
> thankfully Apple's own SLA provides us with very direct answers: 
> 
> 
> "B. License from Mac App Store. If you obtained a license for the Apple 
> Software from the Mac App Store, then subject to the terms and conditions of 
> this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules set forth in 
> the App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) 
> (“Usage Rules”), you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive 
> license: 
> 
> [several sections removed for brevity] 
> 
> (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of 
> the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac 
> Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software." 
> 
> 
> This is the license for the NON-SERVER version of Mac OS X Lion, 10.7, and 
> every operating system since then has had a similar provision. This means 
> that yes, you do need to run it on Apple hardware, but you can run up to 
> three copies of OS X, or two in a virtual machine presuming you were using 
> Xen or ESXi.
> 
> Macs have good VT-d and VT-x support, but since they don't use PS/2 for 
> trackpad and keyboard, or have a TPM, it would be a terrible platform to run 
> Qubes on (trust me, I've tried). Not to mention that HiDPI support is still a 
> work in progress - I miss my retina display something awful.
> 
> 
> Which brings us to the real question, how do we get this to work on Qubes 
> today, on a non-Apple laptop? 
> 
> 1) accept that the developers will not work on making this happen, because 
> Mac hardware is not a good target for Qubes unless something changes, and the 
> dev's very limited time is much better spent elsewhere, especially given the 
> potential for SLA abuse. I for one would much rather see Qubes 4 ship, than 
> have macOS patches land.
> 
> 2) accept *individual* responsibility for breaking a software license 
> agreement. 
> 
> 3) try to make it work (not sure if those patches above still work in Xen 
> 4.7, but Xen 4.7 might also have some of the newer code needed to make it 
> work). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
> Also accept that if you have to patch Xen with code downloaded from a mailing 
> list, you're probably downgrading your dom0 security, and therefore the 
> overall system security, by a fair amount.
> 
> 4) google a bunch (IIRC there is some info floating around on the QEMU 
> mailing list that might help).
> 
> 5) celebrate or drink, depending on the outcome. possibly both.



The thing about the licensing is that IF you get permission from Apple to use 
the OS under Qubes then you can. Even if it is not on Apple Hardware.

If you get permission to do so then you can. There is no issue there.

1. The developers won't make it happen because they think it's breaking the 
licensing to get permission to run it.

2. It isn't breaking the agreement if you have permission from Apple to do the 
specified things.

3. I have patches and all that allow it to work in 3.0, all that one has to do 
is update it to run properly on 4. But it can patch 3.1, however the updates in 
3.2 mean the patches need to be updated more.

4. Why use Google "a bunch" when you can just look on this forum and read this 
thread?

5. Do both, because you should always celebrate both successes and failures.
>From failure, you learn, from success, not so much.

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-01 Thread Eric


On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 5:31:36 PM UTC-7, Eric wrote:

> 4) google a bunch (IIRC there is some info floating around on the QEMU 
> mailing list that might help).

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/

looks like Eric Shelton who provided the patches up-thread did most of the work 
on this.

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-01 Thread Eric
Most of the following removed for brevity:

On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 4:37:15 AM UTC-8, Achim Patzner wrote: 
> 
> Point is: You can't buy a valid license without buying a machine with 
> it. I guess you could buy *heaps* of Mac mini just to obtain licenses... 
> Just like having to buy defective power supplies to get MagSafe 
> connectors. And Apple does not attack the people breaking the licenses; 
> they are usually aiming at those who enable others to break them (which 
> I regard as a good thing). 
> 
> 
> Achim 


Most of seems a bit misinformed (or at least very confusingly worded), and 
thankfully Apple's own SLA provides us with very direct answers: 


"B. License from Mac App Store. If you obtained a license for the Apple 
Software from the Mac App Store, then subject to the terms and conditions of 
this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules set forth in the 
App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage 
Rules”), you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license: 

[several sections removed for brevity] 

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of 
the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac 
Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software." 


This is the license for the NON-SERVER version of Mac OS X Lion, 10.7, and 
every operating system since then has had a similar provision. This means that 
yes, you do need to run it on Apple hardware, but you can run up to three 
copies of OS X, or two in a virtual machine presuming you were using Xen or 
ESXi.

Macs have good VT-d and VT-x support, but since they don't use PS/2 for 
trackpad and keyboard, or have a TPM, it would be a terrible platform to run 
Qubes on (trust me, I've tried). Not to mention that HiDPI support is still a 
work in progress - I miss my retina display something awful.


Which brings us to the real question, how do we get this to work on Qubes 
today, on a non-Apple laptop? 

1) accept that the developers will not work on making this happen, because Mac 
hardware is not a good target for Qubes unless something changes, and the dev's 
very limited time is much better spent elsewhere, especially given the 
potential for SLA abuse. I for one would much rather see Qubes 4 ship, than 
have macOS patches land.

2) accept *individual* responsibility for breaking a software license 
agreement. 

3) try to make it work (not sure if those patches above still work in Xen 4.7, 
but Xen 4.7 might also have some of the newer code needed to make it work). 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
Also accept that if you have to patch Xen with code downloaded from a mailing 
list, you're probably downgrading your dom0 security, and therefore the overall 
system security, by a fair amount.

4) google a bunch (IIRC there is some info floating around on the QEMU mailing 
list that might help).

5) celebrate or drink, depending on the outcome. possibly both. 

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2017-04-01 Thread Eric
On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 4:37:15 AM UTC-8, Achim Patzner wrote:

[etc etc etc etc removed for brevity]

> 
> Point is: You can't buy a valid license without buying a machine with
> it. I guess you could buy *heaps* of Mac mini just to obtain licenses...
> Just like having to buy defective power supplies to get MagSafe
> connectors. And Apple does not attack the people breaking the licenses;
> they are usually aiming at those who enable others to break them (which
> I regard as a good thing).
> 
> 
> Achim

Most of this is untrue, and thankfully Apple's own SLA provides us with very 
direct answers:

"B. License from Mac App Store. If you obtained a license for the Apple 
Software from the Mac App Store, then subject to the terms and conditions of 
this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules set forth in the 
App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage 
Rules”), you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:

[several sections removed for brevity]

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of 
the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac 
Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software."

This is the license for Mac OS X Lion, 10.7, and every operating system since 
then has had a similar provision. Yes, you do need to run it on Apple hardware, 
and, since Macs don't use PS/2 for trackpad and keyboard, it would be a 
terrible platform to run Qubes on (trust me, I've tried). They have good VT-d 
and VT-x support, but no TPM, and a bunch of really-well-performing wifi chips 
that don't work very well with Qubes either. Not to mention that HiDPI support 
is still a work in progress (though I miss my retina display something awful).


Which brings us to the real question, how do we get this to work on Qubes 
today, on a non-Apple laptop?

1) accept that the developers will not work on making this happen, because Mac 
hardware is not a good target for Qubes unless something changes (which is 
doubtful, since Apple is going more and more crazy with proprietary stuff, 
making it harder and harder for Linux to write drivers), and this use case, 
while super helpful for a small number of folks, would.

2) accept *personal* responsibility for breaking a software license agreement.

3) try to make it work (not sure if those patches above still work in Xen 4.7, 
but Xen 4.7 might also have some of the newer code needed to make it work). 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4) google a bunch (there is some info floating around on the QEMU mailing list 
I believe).

5) celebrate or drink, depending on the outcome. possibly both.

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-11-06 Thread Drew White
On Monday, 7 November 2016 01:54:50 UTC+11, Dominik Dorn  wrote:
> The current VMWare Fusion v8 allows to run multiple instances of OSX. 
> They even advertise it on their website:
> http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html
> "macOS Sierra-Ready
> Launch virtual machines on Macs with macOS 10.12 Sierra, or safely test the 
> new macOS in a sandbox on your current Mac without disruption."

Still, it's running on a Mac... 
So that's why aparently they can advertise that like that and do it like that. 
Because it's on a Mac already.

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-11-06 Thread Dominik Dorn
The current VMWare Fusion v8 allows to run multiple instances of OSX.
They even advertise it on their website:
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html
"macOS Sierra-Ready
Launch virtual machines on Macs with macOS 10.12 Sierra, or safely test the
new macOS in a sandbox on your current Mac without disruption."

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-11-06 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 06.11.2016 um 10:42 schrieb Alex:

> On 11/06/2016 10:31 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote:
> Actually reading the license of OSX available at
> https://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/MacOSX.htm is very easy
> because they are awfully short and simple, compared to a lot of other
> software.
>
> And in 2.A. there is the actual permitted use:
>> This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple 
>> Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.
> which means that you can own an Apple Mac computer, install
> Qubes/Linux/what you want on it, install VirtualBox/VMWare/Xen on it,
> and have an OSX virtual machine while still behaving according to the
> license.

There were other people who thought it would be that simple (mind you,
I'm not talking about Mac OS X Server, a product that became a 30$
add-on later); does anyone remember a product called VMware Fusion
version 4.10 which suddenly removed the artificial barrier against
running non-Server Mac OS X on VMware and which had ot be replaced by
version 4.11 only two weeks later with the only bug fixed being able to
run Mac OS X on a VM? That must have ben one hell f a letter Apple sent,
I guess I would pay for reading it.

> The third point, "ensure your physical system is an Apple-labeled
> computer", explicits the then-actual license conditions to run a
> virtualized OSX within the license terms.

And if you do, you can run VMware ESXi on a Mac Pro cluster and use it
to virtualize multiple Mac OS-based machines, as long as they are
installing Server.app on them. One of our customers is doing it to get
the applications from his old Mac Servers running in a world where the
most important customer is obviously the iPad Pro user...

> AFAIK, by the link from the apple store reported above, these terms are
> still valid - you can run a virtualized OSX and be within the license
> terms if it is the only instance you run, and it runs on an
> Apple-labeled computer.

Point is: You can't buy a valid license without buying a machine with
it. I guess you could buy *heaps* of Mac mini just to obtain licenses...
Just like having to buy defective power supplies to get MagSafe
connectors. And Apple does not attack the people breaking the licenses;
they are usually aiming at those who enable others to break them (which
I regard as a good thing).


Achim

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-11-06 Thread Alex
On 11/06/2016 10:31 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote:
> Manuel Amador (Rudd-O):
>> On 06/17/2016 04:11 AM, Drew White wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement
>>> or anything for me wanting to run it.
>> 
>> Yeah you are.  Check the licensing terms for the Mac OS X software
>>  that came with it.
>> 
>> Not that it matters, as it's a bullshit "agreement" that transforms
>> a purchase into somewhat of a feudal renting system of objects.
> 
> [...]
Actually reading the license of OSX available at
https://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/MacOSX.htm is very easy
because they are awfully short and simple, compared to a lot of other
software.

And in 2.A. there is the actual permitted use:
> This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple 
> Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.

which means that you can own an Apple Mac computer, install
Qubes/Linux/what you want on it, install VirtualBox/VMWare/Xen on it,
and have an OSX virtual machine while still behaving according to the
license.

That's also the position of VMWare regarding their products; please
check http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/MacOSX_10_9.html where they
speak about VMWare Fusion:
> Prerequisites
> 
> Before you begin, verify that the following tasks are complete:
> 
> Read General Installation Instructions for All VMware Products. 
> Download Install OS X Mavericks.app from the Mac App Store. Ensure
> your physical system is an Apple-labeled computer. This is required
> to install or run OS X 10.9 in a virtual machine. Ensure you physical
> system can support an additional virtual machine with at least 2GB of
> RAM.
The third point, "ensure your physical system is an Apple-labeled
computer", explicits the then-actual license conditions to run a
virtualized OSX within the license terms.

AFAIK, by the link from the apple store reported above, these terms are
still valid - you can run a virtualized OSX and be within the license
terms if it is the only instance you run, and it runs on an
Apple-labeled computer.

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-11-06 Thread Jeremy Rand
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O):
> On 06/17/2016 04:11 AM, Drew White wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, 15 May 2016 14:05:50 UTC+10, Jeremy Rand wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I think a legal argument could be made that such license
>> agreements are anti-competitive and therefore unenforceable.
>>  However,
>> I am unaware of any specific precedent for this argument, so it would
>> indeed probably be unwise for ITL to violate the license agreement
>> unless their goal is to win the inevitable lawsuit and thus achieve a
>> beneficial precedent.  (And while that would be laudable, I would
>> definitely not blame ITL if they decided that such activities are not
>> worth their effort or budget.)
>>
>> (And of course, I'm not a lawyer.)
>>
>>
>> Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement or
>> anything for me wanting to run it.
> 
> Yeah you are.  Check the licensing terms for the Mac OS X software that
> came with it.
> 
> Not that it matters, as it's a bullshit "agreement" that transforms a
> purchase into somewhat of a feudal renting system of objects.

Drew reminds me of a kid I knew in high school who routinely got his
legal advice from the first response he got on Yahoo Answers.  You can't
seriously expect someone with that mindset to have the patience or skill
set to read the OS X license agreement, can you?  I mean, he doesn't
even have the patience or skill set to read paragraph-long answers that
he's given on this mailing list (see his countless other threads).

-Jeremy

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-10-30 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
On 06/17/2016 04:11 AM, Drew White wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, 15 May 2016 14:05:50 UTC+10, Jeremy Rand wrote:
>
> FWIW, I think a legal argument could be made that such license
> agreements are anti-competitive and therefore unenforceable.
>  However,
> I am unaware of any specific precedent for this argument, so it would
> indeed probably be unwise for ITL to violate the license agreement
> unless their goal is to win the inevitable lawsuit and thus achieve a
> beneficial precedent.  (And while that would be laudable, I would
> definitely not blame ITL if they decided that such activities are not
> worth their effort or budget.)
>
> (And of course, I'm not a lawyer.)
>
>
> Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement or
> anything for me wanting to run it.

Yeah you are.  Check the licensing terms for the Mac OS X software that
came with it.

Not that it matters, as it's a bullshit "agreement" that transforms a
purchase into somewhat of a feudal renting system of objects.


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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-10-29 Thread Eric Shelton
On Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 12:54:11 PM UTC-4, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> 
> On 2016-10-29 09:19, Dominik Dorn wrote:
> > [image: Inline image 1]
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm.. just noticed that it does not say "we support os x"... still a little
> > misleading..
> > 
> 
> Oh, that's just Google giving you a preview of our "What is Qubes OS?"
> explanation:
> 
> https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/#what-is-qubes-os
> 
> As you can see, that sentence is literally just explaining what an operating
> system is (for non-technical readers) and pointing to the most well-known
> examples (which, of course, includes OS X).
> 
> > so back to the question... what's required to get this going?
> > 
> 
> I'm afraid Qubes does not (currently) support OS X. However, we have an
> open issue for it, and we welcome help on this:
> 
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1982
> 
> You can read more in this message (and the surrounding thread):
> 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/RiVntUzgJmY/rXMtXD3WKQAJ
> 
> 
> P.S. - Please try to avoid top-posting.

Do not expect any success with getting OSX/MacOS working until a recent version 
of QEMU is in place for HVM (the only version of QEMU that works in a stub 
domain right now is very old and many, many changes and improvements have been 
made to QEMU since then that make it a lot easier to run guest OSes.  Getting 
that to work is a substantial development effort.  Headway is being made on it, 
but I don't know if you can count on it being a Qubes 4.0 feature - I suspect 
it is not a blocker that would justify delaying that release.

Then, even after QEMU is in place, there will likely be a few additional 
challenges, but I there are enough examples of OSX/MacOS being run under 
QEMU+KVM to get past that.

Finally, running OSX/MacOS as a guest OS never really has been much of a 
priority in the Xen community, so it may never end up running "out of the box."

Eric

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-10-29 Thread Andrew David Wong
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On 2016-10-29 09:19, Dominik Dorn wrote:
> [image: Inline image 1]
> 
> 
> Hmm.. just noticed that it does not say "we support os x"... still a little
> misleading..
> 

Oh, that's just Google giving you a preview of our "What is Qubes OS?"
explanation:

https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/#what-is-qubes-os

As you can see, that sentence is literally just explaining what an operating
system is (for non-technical readers) and pointing to the most well-known
examples (which, of course, includes OS X).

> so back to the question... what's required to get this going?
> 

I'm afraid Qubes does not (currently) support OS X. However, we have an
open issue for it, and we welcome help on this:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1982

You can read more in this message (and the surrounding thread):

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/RiVntUzgJmY/rXMtXD3WKQAJ


P.S. - Please try to avoid top-posting.

> 
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Andrew David Wong  wrote:
> 
> On 2016-10-29 07:52, domi...@dominikdorn.com wrote:
 Hi.. just chiming in...

 I came here because of all the hype that's going on about Cubes-OS at
> the moment, mainly because of the Snowden movie. I liked what I've seen in
> the video tour.

> 
> Welcome. :)
> 
 On the main website, Cubes-OS is advertising that its able to run Mac OS
> X and iOS.

> 
> Where do you see this?
> 

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-10-29 Thread Andrew David Wong
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On 2016-10-29 07:52, domi...@dominikdorn.com wrote:
> Hi.. just chiming in...
> 
> I came here because of all the hype that's going on about Cubes-OS at the 
> moment, mainly because of the Snowden movie. I liked what I've seen in the 
> video tour.
> 

Welcome. :)

> On the main website, Cubes-OS is advertising that its able to run Mac OS X 
> and iOS.
> 

Where do you see this?

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-10-29 Thread dominik
Hi.. just chiming in...

I came here because of all the hype that's going on about Cubes-OS at the 
moment, mainly because of the Snowden movie. I liked what I've seen in the 
video tour.

On the main website, Cubes-OS is advertising that its able to run Mac OS X and 
iOS.

I also own a Macbook Pro and would like to run Mac OS X as a Cubicle / multiple 
cubicles .. at the moment, I can quite easily install a OS X VM with VMWare 
Fusion - they even provide a explicit installation option for it, where you can 
install it from the rescue partition. 

So obviously, the legal part is already tackled by checking for some properties 
on the underlying hardware.. Apple seams to be fine with it, as else VMWare 
wouldn't allow it.

The two main questions now are: 
1) Are there skilled CubesOS developers that would be willing to do this?
2) What resources would they need to do this (hardware, money, other 
developers)?

if we have a yes for 1) we can try to find a way for 2) ... crowdfunding comes 
to my mind. If of course no Devs are interested in this, the whole thing makes 
no sense and references to MacOS X and iOS should be removed from the website, 
so people now right from the start that this is not supported. 

cheers,
Dominik

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-06-17 Thread niels
> On June 17, 2016 at 11:47 AM Achim Patzner  wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 17.06.2016 um 06:11 schrieb Drew White:
> > Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement or 
> > anything for me wanting to run it.
> 
> You didn't read the license very well, then. Depending on the version of 
> Mac OS X you bought as part of your machine there are several 
> restrictions (including only running server versions and only running it 
> on genuine Apple hardware) on the use of the software you licensed.

Actually if he updates his iMac regularly it depends on the version installed. 
And 10.10 is allowed to be virtualized (10.7 and up is client and server; 10.5 
and .6 only server - since for some versions the server is only an extension of 
the client via an AppStore-App anything else wouldn't make sense)

> > All that the qubes-os developers are doing is putting the availability 
> > for those that have a MAC and want to run one piece of hardware 
> > instead of 4 to do so without an issue.
> 
> _could_ be doing.
> 
> > If people decide to use it for the wrong purposes, then that is not 
> > the fault of Qubes-OS. Qubes-OS and developers should not be the 
> > judge, jury, and executioner for this.
> 
> The Qubes developers should have the right to decide that for themselves.

Yep, priorities and such.

> > The patch for Qubes 3.0 would work fine, jsut have to put it into 3.1 
> > / 4.0 and get it working again.
> 
> If you belive this is a good idea why don't you spend your time on doing it?

Because not everyone is able to code, test code and build an operating system 
and would need a lot of work by the user to get to a level to include an 
appropriate patch (sorry, I don't know what exactly the patch is doing and what 
needs to be done to recompile the Xen hypervisor and install it properly) but 
maybe not a lot of work by the developers. But I also have to say that users 
often assume things are simpler than they expect. If the devs have no use for 
OS X and there's only one user who really wants it, the priority is probably 
not that high.

> > I own a Mac, I want to run MacOSX on Qubes on my PC which is much much 
> > more powerful than my Mac. And that way I could also have multiples.
> 
> You know that you really start sounding like a spoilt child? If this is 
> so important to do, implement it, publish it on the repository and 
> mantain the code across Qubes versions. Do the work or pay for it.

Yes, there is always the option to ask a Qubes-dev what he wants in terms of 
compensation to get the feature faster implemented.

I adjusted my expectations in terms of F/OSS that I can have feature requests 
and bug reports and hope that they get implemented at some point because I just 
don't have the money to pay a dev because I expect their hourly rates are 
outside my budget. Even with paid software I had to adjust my expectations that 
I pay for what the software can do now - everything else is just hopeful 
wishing (looking at you Hibari).

Niels

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-06-17 Thread Achim Patzner

Am 17.06.2016 um 06:11 schrieb Drew White:
Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement or 
anything for me wanting to run it.


You didn't read the license very well, then. Depending on the version of 
Mac OS X you bought as part of your machine there are several 
restrictions (including only running server versions and only running it 
on genuine Apple hardware) on the use of the software you licensed.


All that the qubes-os developers are doing is putting the availability 
for those that have a MAC and want to run one piece of hardware 
instead of 4 to do so without an issue.


_could_ be doing.

If people decide to use it for the wrong purposes, then that is not 
the fault of Qubes-OS. Qubes-OS and developers should not be the 
judge, jury, and executioner for this.


The Qubes developers should have the right to decide that for themselves.

The patch for Qubes 3.0 would work fine, jsut have to put it into 3.1 
/ 4.0 and get it working again.


If you belive this is a good idea why don't you spend your time on doing it?

I own a Mac, I want to run MacOSX on Qubes on my PC which is much much 
more powerful than my Mac. And that way I could also have multiples.


You know that you really start sounding like a spoilt child? If this is 
so important to do, implement it, publish it on the repository and 
mantain the code across Qubes versions. Do the work or pay for it.



Achim

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Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3 MacOSX

2016-06-16 Thread Drew White


On Sunday, 15 May 2016 14:05:50 UTC+10, Jeremy Rand wrote:
>
> FWIW, I think a legal argument could be made that such license 
> agreements are anti-competitive and therefore unenforceable.  However, 
> I am unaware of any specific precedent for this argument, so it would 
> indeed probably be unwise for ITL to violate the license agreement 
> unless their goal is to win the inevitable lawsuit and thus achieve a 
> beneficial precedent.  (And while that would be laudable, I would 
> definitely not blame ITL if they decided that such activities are not 
> worth their effort or budget.) 
>
> (And of course, I'm not a lawyer.) 
>

Well, in the end, I own a mac, It's not breaking any agreement or anything 
for me wanting to run it.
All that the qubes-os developers are doing is putting the availability for 
those that have a MAC and want to run one piece of hardware instead of 4 to 
do so without an issue.
There is no infringment on any agreement or lisencing there or anything 
because they would already own a Mac.

If people decide to use it for the wrong purposes, then that is not the 
fault of Qubes-OS. Qubes-OS and developers should not be the judge, jury, 
and executioner for this.
We can run Windows on a Mac if we have Qubes on the Mac, so why not the 
other way around?

For Windows people use Illegal Lisence Keys and cracks and all, but that is 
THEIR issue, not the manufacturer of the hardware.
The patch for Qubes 3.0 would work fine, jsut have to put it into 3.1 / 4.0 
and get it working again.

I own a Mac, I want to run MacOSX on Qubes on my PC which is much much more 
powerful than my Mac. And that way I could also have multiples.
I could have one that I use for this, one for that, and another for another.
I own a Mac, I want to run OSX, I want to run it under Qubes. I'm not doing 
anything wrong.
If people choose to do it wrong, then that is their fault, not Qubes. Qubes 
wouldn't be saying that people can use it to have MacOSX if they don't have 
a Mac, but you would just be allowing those that have a Mac to run OSX on 
their PC.
You are not responsible for those that do things illegally.

Please, add it in and get it working, it would be most beneficial to have a 
SECURE operating system for OSX as well as windows and other variants of 
Unix.


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