On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Dave and others wrote:
After some back and forth, VMware ultimately said that while what
Apple VPs say on the subject is fine, they need Apple to change the
license agreement to explicitly *allow* virtualization. I'm not sure
if that's just an excuse or a legitimate concern or a combination of
the two. I had hoped (before it was known to not be the case) that
Leopard (or at least Leopard Server) itself would have some kind of
virtualization capability, but alas, it doesn't look like we'll get
virtualization of Mac OS X/Mac OS X Server anytime soon, even on
Apple hardware. :-/
Just curious about this thread. What exactly is this thread about?
What and why is this important or disappointing? I understand
VMWare, Parallels, etc allowing "virtual" environments of non-Mac
OSes. But I don't understand why I would want a virtual Mac OS
environment in a Mac OS environment.
Some virtualization software (like VMware's server products) replace
the host OS completely.
Well, I can see some people still holding on to some pre-OS X
software that they "have to have" and needing the Classic
environment (or at least thinking they do) and there is software or
ten year old Mac's still running for that.
Excuse my ignorance or flame me if you must, I have thick skin and
was always told the only dumb question is the one you don't ask. So
I'm asking.
Rick Davis
Virtualization for server environments is handy because you can run >
1 isolated OS environments on one physical (high performance)
computer, which saves rack space and power. There are other reasons
to run services on a virtual machine:
- Sometimes it's not good to run all your services on one machine
- Botched updates can be rolled back to a known good state since a
lot of virtualization systems allow the creation of VM snapshots
- Trying new things out doesn't require a separate test machine
- Better machine utilization, a lot of times our systems are
twiddling their thumbs
...stuff like that.
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