Timeline for MacOS X Catalina VM froze on boot
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 19:02 | answer | added | jerbear4328 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 18:34 | comment | added | jerbear4328 | I understand. If this question is voted to be closed, then that is fair. If there is a chance of a working answer, I would like to try. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 18:29 | comment | added | Tetsujin | This is one of those areas where user consensus was overridden by management policy. Again, legality aside, you have a one-person problem, unsolvable by anyone familiar with Macs & VMs in general. The lead answer on your linked question explains this. So it boils down to "even if it doesn't get closed, the chances of a working answer are slim". Ultimately it's not up to me, it takes 5 user close votes or a mod vote to close any question | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 18:29 | history | edited | jerbear4328 |
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 18:24 | comment | added | jerbear4328 | @Tetsujin That makes sense. However, there are other questions on SuperUser like the one I linked that discuss this same topic, and the users reached a consensus that it is allowed. Also, the question you linked is 10 years old. There is a new question revisiting this policy, and most users agree to lift the ban. I notice that you disagreed with this in the chatroom, but that is an opinion. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 18:03 | comment | added | Tetsujin | The "license key" for macOS is Apple hardware. The OS has no purchase price & no installer/validity key, your 'entry token' is your purchased hardware. IMO, that differentiation alone makes it the same as asking for a Windows keygen. Legalities aside, trying to do this in totally unsupported hardware with no available drivers is fraught with user-specific difficulty, which no-one except an owner of identical hardware could even help you investigate. Further - opinion aside, the owners of Stack Exchange have decided they don't want to play in these muddied waters, so have deemed it off-topic. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:56 | comment | added | jerbear4328 | @Tetsujin I disagree. The provided link is about Hackintosh's, but this question is about virtual OS X. If I had no original Mac hardware, it may be against the apple EULA when downloading the software. If, for example, I purchased a second-hand Mac Mini and used its license key, would that be allowed? If someone asked a question in that situation with the same issue as me, would that be okay, considering that someone without a Mac key could follow the same instructions? In any case, Apple has not and likley will not crack down on this usage of their software. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:33 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I’m voting to close this question because the use of macOS on non-Apple hardware is a legal grey area and as a result "Hackintosh" questions have been deemed off-topic. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:31 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:29 | history | asked | jerbear4328 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |