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Snow Leopard on VMWare?

Started by January 04, 2011 07:15 PM
10 comments, last by swiftcoder 13 years, 10 months ago
Quote: Original post by swiftcoder
Quote: Original post by ms75214
Anyone know if you can install Snow Leopard on VMWare? I want to develop iphone games on my PC.
From a technical standpoint it is possible, and in my experience it works, albeit very poorly.

However, the Mac OS X EULA, last time I checked, explicitly forbids installing it inside a virtual machine. Therefore you do so at your own legal risk, and I really wouldn't recommend selling a game produced in this fashion.

* Note that Mac OS X Server is licensed differently, and that can be installed in a VM. OS X Server is not designed for developing iPhone applications, however.


I know this was true before 10.6 but IIRC this restriction was removed for 10.6?
Anyway wasn't the wording which restricted it, something like [allowed if it has an apple logo on the machine] ?
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Quote: Original post by magic_man
I know this was true before 10.6 but IIRC this restriction was removed for 10.6?
The restriction is still in effect. What Apple did relax was the ability to virtualise Mac OS X Server on Apple-branded hardware.
Quote: Anyway wasn't the wording which restricted it, something like [allowed if it has an apple logo on the machine?
Legal wrangling over the wording is somewhat irrelevant - the only real purpose it serves is to assuage your own (guilty) conscience. If you are comfortable breaking Apple's EULA, that is between you, your conscience, and Apple's legal division.

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