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Re: Upgrade to what [message #82479 is a reply to message #82476] Sat, 08 June 2013 12:37 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Bruce Ryan is currently offline  Bruce Ryan
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Hi Andreas

Thank you! This eases my until-now vaguely guilty conscience. I run Leopard and Snow leopard VMs under VirtualBox on my MacPro (which runs MountainLion). The MacPro came with SnowLeopard but I bought upgrades to Lion and then MountainLion via the app store.

I installed the VMs from separately-bought DVDs so I felt free entirely to use the separately-bought installers elsewhere, because I'd be using each installer only once. However, I had read that it wasn't legal to use macOS in virtual setups.

Not that this stopped me - I had bought the license to use the software. So long as I used each installer/licence in only one place at any time, then it felt legitimate to use it whereever I wanted. (Just as if I buy a washing machine, I can install it in whatever room I like.)

End of waffle

Bruce


On 8 Jun 2013, at 16:58, Mac User #330250 <macuser330250@gmx.net> wrote:

> ---------- Original message ----------

> 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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