![]() I'll even try as far back as 10.5 if any of those still exists in my inventory. I am converting a 10.6.2 Snow Leopard server. For my use case, yes, I am completely legal. Workstation/Desktop (non-server) OSX 10.7 and 10.8 can be virtualized. Well, Servers from 10.5 can be virtualized. ![]() To Clone a Physical Mac there are a few things you need to consider. The difference between Parallels, I won't go into here but so far, I am digging Fusion. It makes it easier to convert a VMware machine build into something I can import into ESXi. I have switched completely over to VMware Fusion 5 from Parallells and VirtualBox on the Mac platform. It doesn't cost much and apparently the licensing allows you to install on 3 macs which is way cool. That will be a later post as I am getting my feet wet figuring this out and sharing it to those interested. I plan to convert some Apple Xserves into VMs and consolidate them into a few running ESXi 5. OSX makes it much more difficult but it is not impossible. I have migrated quite a few using VMware's own migration tool and they work great. In the PC World, there many cool migration tools to convert a live, physical and running Windows machine into a VM (Virtual Machine) guests.
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