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To: dayglored
Of course, trying to run OS-X on non-Apple hardware, virtual or metal, is a whole 'nother story. :-)

You're not kidding. I had an OSX VM several years ago. The network stack was broken unfortunately, and I never could convince it to function correctly. Like I said, I'd be perfectly willing to pay cold cash for an officially sanctioned copy of OSX. I may need to look into trying to get a Fusion VM to run on Workstation. I don't know if they work. Wife has a Mac with fusion.

26 posted on 07/04/2015 10:48:11 AM PDT by zeugma (The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
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To: zeugma
I've moved Fusion-created VMs to VMware Workstation on Win7 and VMware Player on Win7 and Linux with no problems in the past, but you do have to be careful about the VMware versions, and the VMware Tools versions. It's not so much about the guest VM OS as it is about the surrounding VMware support structure.

Generally the Tools installations can be backed out and re-installed if necessary. But I don't think you can back out the changes when you "Upgrade" the guest VM itself (to the next higher version of VMware support). I think the upgrade adds features which confuse the versions prior to the features' introduction.

27 posted on 07/04/2015 11:00:47 AM PDT by dayglored (Meditate for twenty minutes every day, unless you are too busy, in which case meditate for an hour.)
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