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Setup up your Vmware virtual network adapter to enable your client Macs to access the services of the Mac Server within the VM.

#Hosted os x server mac osx

Install Mac OSX Server within VMware in Win 7 (thus breaking Apple licensing).

Install Vmware workstation within Windows 7.

I have no direct experience with the VMWare Fusion product but am assured that it's features are similar and hear that many people quite like it. I have an XP vm and have played some older games in it easily enough. Notes: I have used Parallels on my MacBookPro 17 for years but have not tried Win7 or Vista seriously in a vm on my 2GB ram machine(!). I'd search around and check the Parallel's (or VMWare, etc) user forums to see if anyone has tried your favourite game on Win7/Parallels 4 (etc). If the games are a little less demanding you should be able to play them fine in Parallels 4, but ymmv. Most folks who play current Windows games on their Macs do so through Boot Camp, it seems. Because of the various tradeoffs in virtualiztion you don't get nearly all of your GPU performance through that setup. It depends on which games you want to run as to how much joy you will get out of hosted Windows in Parallels.

#Hosted os x server pro

You'll need lots of CPU and RAM to make all of that run smoothly, but with a Mac Pro workstation I figure you have that covered. I can't say that I have tried this specifically but you should be able to run (Snow) Leopard Server in Parallels (and likely VMWare) along with Win7, on top of either OS X or OS X server. ADC Select Members should be able to do this without any trouble at all, for instance. Please check with your solicitor / Apple Sales Rep on those details. Kordless is correct in pointing out that you cannot virtualize OSX without breaking Apple's licensing but it is certainly possible to virtualize OSX on VMware Workstation, I've done it too.Īpple has clarified their licensing and do allow virtualisation now. Even if there is a lot of progress on the client bare metal hypervisor front in the next year or so I doubt that any new product will outperform these two until they've gone through a couple of revisions and I strongly suspect that high performance client bare metal hypervisors will require hardware level enhancements. Parallels Workstation Extreme isn't a Type 1\Bare metal Hypervisor but it does add an interesting twist to the Type 2 Hypervisor by enabling direct access to things like 3D Graphics and IO hardware from within Guest VM's.Īs it stands I think that the best match at the moment for your requirements is either VMware Fusion or Parallels even though neither of these are bare metal hypervisors.

I haven't come across any independent performance testing numbers of either of these and I suspect that at this stage neither of them supports high end graphics particularly well. There are some solutions from smaller players available - Virtual Computer's NxTop is one, Neocleus' NeoSphere is another. Both VMware and Citrix are both rumored to be working on bare metal client hypervisors but I've seen no indications that any releases are imminent. If you are looking to be able to use the system in such a way that you have direct interaction with a Guest running a high end GUI type OS as your interface then none of the leading "bare metal hypervisors" can do what you want as they are all designed for server virtualization.

#Hosted os x server software

but if that's not possible - I'm fine with OS X Server running in headless mode and being remotely administrated.Ī) Is this possible with today's software?ī) What software do I need to pull this off?

#Hosted os x server mac os x

It would be nice to be able to seamlessly switch between Windows and Mac OS X server.

#Hosted os x server windows 7

I am looking for a virtualization solution that will allow me to run Mac OS X Server (Leopard) and Windows 7 in a manner that let sme play games in Windows 7, while Mac OS X Server is chugging along. Obviously, when I do that - the other computers can't log in, or have their network drives go offline. I Dual Boot into it when I want to play games and what not. I have one hard drive set up with Windows 7.

That being said, its not having a huge load on it. I also provide centralized authentication and remote imaging from the server. I am running this because I have a number of other Macs and I need to store photos / video / etc on the Server's raid.