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    Graphics acceleration (QE/CI) in Snow Leopard possible in VMware Workstation 7?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by shurcooL, Oct 26, 2010.

  1. shurcooL

    shurcooL Notebook Deity

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    I've been doing a lot of searching today, and so far the answer seems to be no. However, most resources seem to be a few years old.

    Has the situation changed? Is it possible to get acceleration (QE/CI) in VMware Workstation 7 with Max OS X 10.6.4?

    I'm using retail 10.6 disk if it makes a difference. The host OS is XP.
     
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    The reason there aren't many resources on this is because I believe this violates the software license agreement. I don't believe consumer Snow Leopard can be used in a virtual machine under any circumstances while Snow Leopard Server is only officially able to be virtualized with Snow Leopard Server as the host OS on Apple hardware. I believe VMWare also only supports virtualization of Snow Leopard Server on VMWare Fusion for Mac and not VMWare Workstation.
     
    ltcommander_data, Oct 26, 2010
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