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It’s a token of progress, and concrete hope that in the future Apple will pull its head the rest of the way out.

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While this is only a technology preview today, VMware works closely with Apple and respects their licensing policies and as such Mac OS X Server in a virtual machine will only be supported on Apple hardware per Apple’s license agreement.Ĭome by our Macworld booth and see Mac OS X Server in a virtual machine for yourself! We’ll be demoing it all day, and distributing free evals of award– winning VMware Fusion ! The one question we know we will get asked is will VMware support Mac OS X Server on non-Apple hardware. While we can’t discuss specific product plans and release dates, we know that this is very important to Mac customers and will take this into account as we plan our future Mac products. It’s hard to express how excited we are to being showing this here at Macworld.

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Sound is not working at this time, but we are working on it!Īnd since Mac OS X Leopard has moved to 64-bit, we are able to leverage VMware’s proven 64-bit support to run Mac OS X Server at it’s full potential, a feature that has been a VMware exclusive for more than three years.

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Mac OS X Leopard Server is not modified to run on VMware virtual hardware and uses Apple’s proven and shipping Leopard drivers for USB keyboard, USB mouse, IDE controller, LSI SCSI controller, High Speed USB 2.0 (UHCI and EHCI) controller, Intel e1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, and VESA video adapter. This is completely legit we are installing Mac OS X Server directly from a factory-sealed Apple DVD onto a virtual machine running only on genuine Apple hardware. Important thing to note: we are NOT showing off a “hackintosh,” using a modified version of the Mac OS X kernel. We will be demonstrating this achievement with our “Mac OS X Server in a Virtual Machine” Technology Preview, at our booth at the Macworld Expo, and with the group of screenshots below.

Today, we are pleased to say that VMware is able to virtualize Mac OS X Leopard Server on Apple hardware using VMware’s proven Mac virtualization engine. This is something our users have asked us for and we were interested in seeing as well. We wanted to make sure you have access to all those devices from your virtual machine as well so we spent a lot of time on making sure devices work well.As you can imagine, the VMware Fusion team was pretty excited when Apple modified their licensing to allow Mac OS X Leopard Server to run in a virtual machine on Apple hardware. I can record movies or use iChat quite easily without the need to buy additional software. One of the cool things that I like about my Apple (albeit an older one with PowerPC chip) is the simplicity of doing any multi-media work. Since most Macs now have Intel’s Duo with two cores, we added Virtual SMP capabilities so that you can assign more than a single CPU to any virtual machine to gain additional performance.

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VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced a new product that will enable Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X…īut a new post on the corporate blog, The Console, from Srinivas Krishnamurti, Director of Developer Products and Market Development, provides details about other features: Update: The VMware official announcement doesn’t provide a name for the new product:

host-guest OSes drag and drop (move or copu a file from Mac OS inside the virtual machine simply dragging it, and vice versa).

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product interoperability (create a new VM on Workstation for Mac OS and run it on Player for Windows or ESX Server on bare metal).

platform interoperability (create a new VM on Mac OS and use it on Windows or Linux, and vice versa).

It’s linked to a sign up page to stay informed about availability of a new virtualization product for Mac OS later this year.įrom description it’s possible to understand it’s Workstation and not just Player (like someone supposed), since VMware advertises the possibility to create new virtual machines. On the VMware homepage a new banner appeared right today, before Apple WWDC conference starts.