Thread-topic: Virtualization... to the original question.. Running Xen on OSX
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> Since it was told to me in private conversation I'm not going to name
> drop, but two Apple vice presidents said that Apple is completely
> fine with virtualization of Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server as long as it
> is on Apple hardware (and is properly licensed).
I'm not entirely sure that "Two Apple VPs told some guy that virtualization
was OK by them" is an ironclad defense in court...
> I also asked Apple Legal and Apple's copyright folks multiple times
> whether the clause in the license agreement prohibited
> virtualization. No answer, of course.
...especially when Apple Legal can't be persuaded to say anything similar.
Apple can resolve this inconsistency in five minutes if they choose to.
Neither Parallels nor EMC/VMWare has that power.
> Agree. I'm starting to put services into our Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> VM environments instead of Mac OS X Server, specifically because of
> numerous advantages in our environment, not the least of which is
> cost, for VMs.
I'm starting to look at replacing Xserves with *NIX/Windows servers as well,
for similar reasons.
The REALLY boggling thing to me is that Apple almost certainly makes MORE
profit off of a $999 copy of Mac OS X Server than off a $2999 Xserve, so if
they can sell more copies of server for virtualization use that's nothing
but a win for them. But they don't see it that way.
--
Dave Pooser, ACSA
Manager of Information Services
Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com
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