Re: Upgrade to what [message #82479 is a reply to message #82476] |
Sat, 08 June 2013 12:37 |
Bruce Ryan
Messages: 25 Registered: August 2012
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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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