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Re: Upgrade to what [message #82476 is a reply to message #82475] Sat, 08 June 2013 11:58 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to what
Date: Saturday, 08. June 2013
From: Bruce Ryan <bruce.ryan@me.com>
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
> Other thought - a modern mac will have the best hardware guarantees, and it

> is possible (though maybe not strictly legal) to make Leopard virtual

> machines under VirtualBox, running on MountainLion. So you'd have the OS

> you're used to, running at the speed of an up-to-date bit of hardware. And

> you'd have the opportunity to buy modern versions of your software as and

> when you want or can afford to.


Actually it is legal. It is legal to run Mac OS X under a real Mac, provided
you acquired a license to do so. This means that you have to buy Snow Leopard
in addition to the Mac that comes with e.g. Lion or Montain Lion.

A downgrade-option or some kind of automatic agreement to run Snow Leopard
virtually under a newer version of OS X does not exist.

So, what is legal?
1) Get a modern Mac with Lion or newer.
2) Get Mac OS X 10.6.
3) Install it virtually on a Mac. (VirtualBox for example, which is free)
4) Run your PowerPC Mac OS X applications on Rosetta of your virtualized Snow
Leopard.

BTW, you could also virtually run Leopard or Tiger/Intel for that cause.

FYI starting from Lion it actually IS legal to virtualize it on a Mac as a
second free license. So, if you have a Mac that came with Lion, it is legal to
virtually install Lion a second time (on the same Mac, inside a Virtual
Machine). But this right did not exist under Snow Leopard and prior versions
of OS X.

Cheers,
Andreas aka Mac User #330250

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