Thanks for letting me know. I am glad that Apple is allowing OSX to be virtualized.
Mark On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Aaron Coburn <acob...@amherst.edu> wrote: > This is new with OS X 10.7 (Lion). > > There are also certain conditions on this. First of all, you need to be > running OS X VMs on Apple hardware, and there is a hard limit on the number > of virtualized instances that you can run on any machine. Second, the VMs > need to be run on a system that is already running Lion. > > The documents listed in this JIRA issue describe installing VMware ESX as a > hypervisor (on Mac Pro hardware) and then running three instances of Lion > inside that. I am not sure that entirely conforms to the EULA. My reading of > it, at least, is that you need to have an instance of OS X running directly > on the hardware. > > The EULA for Lion states (in section B): > 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: > > … > > (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 further qualified with the following: > > The grant set forth in Section 2B(iii) above does not permit you to use the > virtualized copies or instances of the Apple Software in connection with > service bureau, time-sharing, terminal sharing or other similar types of > services. > > This last clause also potentially conflicts with what the VCL is doing, > namely "terminal sharing or other similar types of services". > > Or is there another way to read this? > > Aaron > > > > -- > Aaron Coburn > Systems Administrator and Programmer > Academic Technology Services, Amherst College > (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu > > > > > > On Feb 24, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Mark Gardner wrote: > >> While I am glad to see OSX supported, I was under the impression that >> it was against Apple's license. Am I out of touch? >> >> Mark >> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:44 PM, James O'Dell (Created) (JIRA) >> <j...@apache.org> wrote: >>> OSX under ESXi 4.1 >>> ------------------ >>> >>> Key: VCL-543 >>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-543 >>> Project: VCL >>> Issue Type: Improvement >>> Components: database, vcld (backend), web gui (frontend) >>> Affects Versions: 2.2.1 >>> Reporter: James O'Dell >>> Fix For: 2.2.1 >>> >>> >>> VCL needs OSX support. These files are my first attempt at doing so. >>> >>> -- >>> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. >>> If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA >>> administrators: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa >>> For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark Gardner >> -- > -- Mark Gardner --
