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No Virtualization for Mac!



I'm glad that this controversy is over (for now). This has dragged along enough.

The reasoning behind this was because they don't want to put their users at risk of breaking the OS X EULA—unlike Windows Vista, there is no version of OS X that can be run under a virtual machine—and more importantly, they don't want to strain their (currently good) relationship with Apple.


Virtualization market will rarely encounter Mac in the production environment. They will be largely Windows servers and to a certain extent Linux environments. But anyways I'm glad the controversy is over.

There are more important things to look at like Hypervisor, Full virtualization strategy or taking para-virtualization.

See the rest on Ars...

PS: And there are lots of users who don't understand why Apple does what it does...
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