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The part of that EULA section that really gives me trouble is "...that is already running the Apple Software...".

I want to run OSX in a VM on my MacBook Pro with Windows as the host OS. I used to do it the other way around, boot into OSX and run Windows in a Parallels VM. These days most of my work is in Windows, especially VR work, so it's more practical to boot into Windows. (And I like Windows better than OSX anyway.)

But I still do need to test on OSX occasionally. In an ideal world, since I have VMware installed on Windows, I could just boot up an OSX VM.

But because of that one EULA phrase, OSX will never be supported by a commercial vendor like VMware or a large open source product like VirtualBox - even on Mac hardware!

This leaves booting back to OSX as the only way to run it, and rebooting back and forth is a real pain.

All I want to do is run my legally licensed Windows and legally licensed OSX, and have it be my own choice which one to run as the host OS.

kristofferR
It's pretty easy to solve that issue by applying a community made fix: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/339-unlocker/
Stratoscope OP
Thank you very much! That looks like a perfect solution for me.

I especially like the fact that it's Python source code, so I can look at the code and get some sense of comfort that it doesn't have anything sketchy in it.

y4mi
he'll still be in violation of the EULA though...
Stratoscope OP
I'm not too worried about that. I doubt if Apple will get on my case for running OSX on my MacBook Pro!
geofft
There is a "VMware Unlocker" tool of extremely questionable legality that can enable running OS X as a guest of VMware Player / Workstation on Windows.
snuxoll
The unlocker tool sits in the usual legal gray area of software mods, of course running macOS on non-Apple hardware is against the EULA.

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