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List:       r-sig-mac
Subject:    Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Building binary packages for distribution
From:       Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz () me ! com>
Date:       2012-04-13 19:39:16
Message-ID: B6AE4CD7-B49B-40D1-BE2D-C93CC5806A47 () me ! com
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On Apr 13, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I will readily admit that I am naive in terms of some of the subtleties, but would \
> running Leopard under Lion in a VM be a suitable possibility? 
> It would seem that with Lion, some of the licensing issues relative to running \
> non-server versions of the older OSX distributions under a VM have changed, at \
> least that it what is intimated by an article here for VMWare Fusion: 
> http://www.macworld.com/article/1163755/vmware_fusion_update_lets_users_virtualize_leopard_snow_leopard.html
>  
> Not sure if that is helpful, but recalled seeing some discussions on this over the \
> past few months or so.


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Just as a follow up and in the course of an offlist exchange with Prof. Ripley, I \
located some additional information on the issue of non-server versions of OSX \
running as guest OS's under Lion.

The Release Notes for VMWare's Fusion, version 4.1.1, include a "Resolved Issues" \
list (http://www.vmware.com/support/fusion4/doc/releasenotes_fusion_411.html#resolvedissues), \
which notes:

  Fusion 4.1.1 includes the Mac OS X Server check omitted from VMware Fusion 4.1.0.

So it would seem that the prior behavior described in the MacWorld article was either \
an error on the part of VMWare and/or Apple's corporate counsel made some phone \
calls.

I also posted a comment to the MacWorld article with the above information for the \
benefit of others who may, as I did, read the article and get the wrong impression of \
the current state of affairs.

So with that, based upon other research, each of the VM providers, VMWare, Parallels \
and VirtualBox, are limited to using the server versions of Leopard and Snow Leopard \
under Lion as a host.

Regards,

Marc

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