Somewhat OT was liblzma and ffmpeg

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:53 PM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

> Could you wax lyrical for a moment on how you did a VM. Mail me off list
> if the answer is politically incorrect for the list.
>

My understanding is that it's painful to (near?) impossible for VirtualBox,
largely due to crashing bugs in the VMM, but Parallels and VMware Fusion
support it. Parallels even has a sort of canned recipe for it, which I've
used in the past. I will note that OS X has lots of visual glitches and the
occasional crash when virtualized.

It is entirely legal to run OS X Lion and later in a VM; IIRC the
per-machine OS X license allows one VM for Lion and three for ML and
Mavericks. Older OS X Server may also be virtualized (the relaxation of the
client virtualization restriction is because OS X Server stopped being a
separate product with Lion, as I understand it), which with one of the pay
levels of the OS X Developer program can be fairly convenient.

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