Re: Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-29 Thread James O'Dell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think there are a few things that need to be addressed about running OSX images. 1. Licensing If VMware, Parallel, and Virtual Box can run OSX server in virtualization. It seems to me - we can follow their lead, and run OSX server virtualiz

Re: Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Gardner
If you read the license, it prohibits it rather than just not supporting it. (Or at least did the last time I read it.) Mark On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Henry E Schaffer wrote: > Mark writes: > > Yes. Apple only allows virtualizing OSX Server on Apple hardware. ... > > People have done it

Re: Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-28 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Mark writes: > Yes. Apple only allows virtualizing OSX Server on Apple hardware. ... People have done it in spite of Apple's discouragement - and I've been told that it doesn't actually violate the license agreement, it just means that the use isn't suppported. (I don't have any idea if that's c

RE: Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-28 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Abdurachmanov Subject: Re: Mac OS-X on VCL? Yes. Apple only allows virtualizing OSX Server on Apple hardware. I assumed that you weren't running on Apple hardware (I'm not) and hence I didn't mention that option. Mark On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:01 AM, David Abdurachmanov mailto:d

Re: Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Gardner
Yes. Apple only allows virtualizing OSX Server on Apple hardware. I assumed that you weren't running on Apple hardware (I'm not) and hence I didn't mention that option. Mark On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:01 AM, David Abdurachmanov < david.abdurachma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Licence does allow running

Re: Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-28 Thread David Abdurachmanov
Licence does allow running Mac OS X Server version in virtual machine. Oracle VirtualBox, Parallels (?) and VMWare already supports running Mac OS X in virtual machine. This still might mean that it requires Apple approved hardware and host OS must be Mac OS X. -david On 2011.03.28, at 15:50,

Re: Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Gardner
The main problem is that Apple's license does not allow it. Mark On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Waldron, Michael H wrote: > Has anyone written a provisioning module to deploy Mac OS-X images on the > VCL? I know very little about Mac but it appears to be very Unix-like under > the covers. > >

Mac OS-X on VCL?

2011-03-28 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Has anyone written a provisioning module to deploy Mac OS-X images on the VCL? I know very little about Mac but it appears to be very Unix-like under the covers. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-9