MAC OS on VMWARE


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InsanelyMac is probably the best resource for troubleshooting Mac OS X Client installation problems.

I had 10.5 installed on my desktop without too many problems (couldn't get Time Machine to ever work properly). It was running great, and then I installed something (I think some ktext that was hopefully going to fix something) and I couldn't boot into it after that. Last summer, I installed Snow Leopard. All was working well except Quartz Extreme 2.0 wouldn't load. It worked fine in 10.5. I tried to install updated graphics drivers, and tried some recommended "hacks" which ended up messing up something so I couldn't boot anymore.

I would think that running in VMWare would be really slow because there wouldn't be any 3d acceleration. If you do get Mac OS X installed and everything seems to work well, do a full partition backup. In my experience it is very fragile, lol.

I ended up buying a MBP for my Mac OS X tinkering.

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i'll try it before mods remove links that could otherwise land Neowin in deep ****

EDIT: i call bull****, you got more than 512MB on the host!

Legal issues aside - do you really expect to be able to run OS X in VMWare on a host with only 512 MB of RAM? OS X needs 512 MB by itself...

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That doesn't explain why we can run Mac OS X Server but we can't run the regular version in VMware Fusion on a Mac.

Commercial OS makers want proper licensing for each install of their OS. Microsoft has gone the route of unique product keys, and internet activation for each install of their OS. Apple has gone the route of locking it down to their own hardware. Mac OS X doesn't have any product key's or activation associated with it. The limitation is probably imposed by Apple, because nothing would be keeping users from re-installing the Mac OS X client that came with their hardware w/o paying licensing to Apple for that OS X install.

Since Mac OS X Server is licensed differently, the limitation isn't there...

I dunno, that is my best guess. Like most of things, it probably has to do with money.

If you want a sandbox, maybe have 2 Mac OS X partitions...?

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Legal issues aside - do you really expect to be able to run OS X in VMWare on a host with only 512 MB of RAM? OS X needs 512 MB by itself...

i don't

512MB was his claim ;)

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