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miniman1337 • today at 4:02 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Isnt it against the Apple EULA to sell VMs of Macos? Love the creative problem solving with the HW.


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hmartin • today at 4:11 PM

> A well-known limitation is that Apple only allows two macOS VMs per physical Mac. It can be a Mac Pro with 24 cores and 192 GB memory, yet it is limited to running only two guest VMs. This limitation leaks into our product offering: we can only slice Mac resources in two halves. So we run instances with 6 or 12 cores on 14-core Mac Minis and 8/16-core instances on 18-core MacBooks (we reserve a couple cores for management overhead).

kylec • today at 4:07 PM

I don't know about selling, but Apple permits up to 2 virtualized Macs to run on a Mac. If they are circumventing this limit that would be an issue, but it doesn't sound like they are.

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GeekyBear • today at 6:07 PM

To be fair, it was against Microsoft's EULA to sell the OEM version of Windows to individuals who built a computer from parts.

Nobody cared.