If you need to run SL, then best to keep an older machine around. We can't discuss them here since that would violate the ToU for the forums. There are always unsupported methods of doing things. There also appears to be a small wording clause that the Lion VM also has to be run on a Lion host, but I'm trying to get some clarification on that.
VMware being the virtualization industry leader, I will respect their interpretation. The current official statement from VMware was that it is not allowed.
#RUNNING MAC OS X VM SOFTWARE#
However most of these people are not lawyers and not specialized in this area of software law. Many people will say their interpretation of the Leopard and Snow Leopard EULAs will allow this. And versions of OSX prior to 10.5 are not allowed in virtual machines. (Same for Leopard Server.) "Desktop" versions of Leopard and Snow Leopard are NOT allowed as virtual machines. Only Snow Leopard Server is allowed as a virtual machine, so long as it's run on Apple hardware and has an appropriately purchased license. and will it work with running Snow Leopard in a VM, or does the VM OS also have to be Lion? I do not know the official status of running Lion as a VM in Parallels or VirtualBox, but Fusion will require the upcoming Fusion version 4 (or whatever it will be called.) The current Fusion3 does not support Lion as a VM. You would get one of the virtualization products like Parallels, VirtualBox or VMware Fusion. I specifically remember hearing, or reading, that OS X Lion would support OS X in a VM, as long as that copy of OS X would run on that computer normally.
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