Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS...
by snagglegaggle on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:27PM
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I was referring to macOS/OSX, but for Windows, it's actually against the licenses to virtualize anything but the Pro or Enterprise version. Considering the provisions in the DMCA about circumvention of copy protection being allowable, I'm not sure how enforceable this is.
Turns out other comments confirm for macOS, but I was under the impression Apple hadn't commented on it, though a plain reading of the license indicated it was ok.
Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS...
by lloeki on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:17AM
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> it's actually against the licenses to virtualize anything but the Pro or Enterprise version
At some point it was OK to virtualise Home OEM versions as long as it was not running twice at the same time. The wording made it so you couldn’t virtualise Win on Win with the same license but virtualising in a host OS like Linux on the hardware the OEM license was tied to was allowed. I don’t know how that flied with non-OEM Home licenses or if even that changed at some point though.
It's also fine to virtualize a copy of macOS on an original hardware, but it hardly does anything for gaming as there is still no GPU acceleration available for macOS guests.