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		simonw on Feb 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s great GPL purge "AFAIK you are disallowed by the license of OS X to install it as a virtual machine" That changed with OS X Lion - you're now allowed to run it in a VM, and the various VM providers have support pages about it: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua... http://kb.parallels.com/112121

mcosta on Feb 7, 2012 [–]

Apple now allows full virtualization of its operating system, provided that it is installed on Apple hardware which is also running OS X 10.7.

Great!

berntb on Feb 7, 2012 | [–]

Sigh, Apple makes most of their money on hardware. Deal with it, or not. (My latest laptop is Linux only.)

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