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The next problem: is Windows really $200 or can I find it for less money.
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You can get an OEM license for much less than that. Look at Newegg.com.
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About 2-3 weeks ago, I installed Windows 7, Professional 64 bit OEM for $140 from Newegg.
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That's prohibited by Apple licensing, which all the virtualization vendors are honoring. So, in short, it's not possible. If that happend for Microsoft there would be a ton of lawsuits.
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I doubt it. If MS says you can't use their OS virtualized, that's what they say--and they're perfectly within their rights. Same deal with Apple.
I personally think Apple is being foolish, but I understand why they're doing it.
Their main business on the Mac side is hardware; the OS is just gravy (which is why it costs $40 now--that's the upgrade price, there is no full version SKU.)
And you can virtualize MacOS, it's just that you have to virtualize it on Apple hardware, which I guarantee pretty much no one is going to do, at least in a server environment. You can even run ESXi on an Xserve--it's cleared by both companies. Unfortunately, they don't make those any more.
Hell, for that matter, if Microsoft said you had to pay more for a version of Windows that you would run virtualized, they're perfectly within their rights to do that.
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I see what you are saying, makes sense, wasn't really thinking that through. Although it looks like VMware is allowing it anyway.
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