[Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

Hai Quan Chen chenhaiq at cn.ibm.com
Wed Dec 4 01:03:46 UTC 2013


ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware.

In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, which connects to 
Openstack via vCenter.




From:   Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org>
To:     openstack at lists.openstack.org
Date:   2013/12/04 07:46
Subject:        Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver



On 2013-12-03 14:47:48 -0800 (-0800), Stefano Maffulli wrote:
[...]
> If so, I haven't heard of anybody virtualizing OS X but I'd be happy to
> be proven wrong.

As recently as last year a former employer of mine was looking into
it, but the issue turned out to be one of licensing. Apple didn't
license OS X for running on any hardware except their own, so while
there were some ways to make it technically possible it was not
_legally_ possible. This also seems to be reflected in VMware's
knowledge base now...

<URL: 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000131 
>

-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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