February 9, 2007
Parallels says it won’t virtualize OS X until it gets the OK from Apple
Posted Feb. 9, ’07, 1:02 PM PT by Aaron Freedman
Category | Legal
While most of us think of virtualization as a tool to run Windows and Linux within OS X, many people would like to run OS X in a virtualized environment, whether on Windows or Linux or another operating system. Well, don’t get your hopes up, because Parallels Marketing Manager Ben Rudolph has firmly stated that due to the fact that the EULA for OS X forbids virtualization, Parallels will not support it until it gets the OK from Apple.
Now, while I know that the demand for OS X virtualization in Windows isn’t nearly as large as Windows in OS X, I still don’t like the fact that Apple fully bans virtualization of OS X. At least Microsoft lets some of the versions of Vista run in virtual machines, but with OS X, you’re left out in the cold. But, the OS X EULA doesn’t say anything about running OS X in a virtual machine on a Mac. So, maybe there will be a solution for virtualizing OS X, even if it could only run on a Mac.
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I for one would love to see OS 9 in a Parallels setting, so I could buy some old classic mac games, like Dark Forces.
Personally, I wouldn't want to run OS X, or any other Mac OS for that matter, on anything but a Mac.
For me, as I think with many (if not most) other Mac users, it's a "holistic" computing experience, which includes both hardware and software in integration. To run the Mac OS in virtualization on a PC would remove half of that equation.
However, I could certainly see being able to run the classic Mac OS in virtualization on an Intel Mac. It would give me back some very useful programs I had on OS 9 that were never transported to OS X.
My understanding is that Microsoft's EULA for a couple of flavours of Vista also stipulate no use of virtualization software (this includes Basic, which might be the most popular for Mac'ites who simply want access to WinOS programs without the bells and whistles) so does this mean Parallels will 'no longer support' Windows?
Think not.