"Immediately after the release of new Virtual Infrastructure 3, Virtualization.info had the pleasure to reach Raghu Raghuram, Vice President of Platform Products at VMware, to ask him details about the just launched products, the recent Akimbi acquisition announcement, the secret VMware Integrity product, a planned presence in the Apple operating system, and further steps in the virtualization market leader's strategy. From his answers a revelation came out: VMware is going to partially support Microsoft'svirtualization technologies."
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Member since:2005-06-29
im willing to bet it has to do with legalities. apple most assuredly doesn't want their OS running on anything but their hardware (says so in the eula, yes, yeeech, eula..), and whilst it may be legal in ones own country to bypass a EULA, in the states it isn't, and that's a big market.
and i doubt vmware would be to keen on taking on apple legal. just wouldn't be worth it.
Member since:2005-11-15
There are two separate issues here: running VMware on OS X, which Apple should have no objection to, and running OS X on Vmware, which Apple would probably object to unless it is done very carefully. Mac software developers would probably benefit greatly from running OS X on VMware/Parallels on OS X, so hopefully Apple, VMware, and Parallels can work something out.
Member since:2005-07-06
"and i doubt vmware would be to keen on taking on apple legal. just wouldn't be worth it."
Oh, dunno. EMC's legal department would probably make a nice sparring partner. VMware is part of EMC, remember? Maybe some patent swap, or under the table swapping of licenses, and everything would be all fine and dandy again.
Member since:2006-01-25
This does raise an interesting point. When developing software and working with computers, its common that creating save points of desktops in software development is a great feature of VMware workstation. Because of Apple's protection schemes, its impossible to do this AFAIK and is a feature that will be reserved for Linux and Windows. I love using VMware on Linux 
Member since:
2005-07-06
OSX has devolved into just another x86 OS. I don't see why VMware wouldn't be able to support it either as guest or host.
Seems to me like stating the obvious.