VM on Mac

John, when I attempted to run Win 2K12 on my 2K15 iMac 5k, it wouldn't allow it. Only win 10. Once Win 10 was installed, if you enable Hyper-V, then restart as required, Windows becomes inaccessible, as is shown in this thread. If you are aware of a manner this could be achieved, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Yes it is possible to run VMs (Virtual Machines) on a Mac. The following are all the currently available options. (In no particular order.)

• VirtualBox
• Parallels Desktop
• VMware Fusion
• VMware ESXi aka Vsphere
• Veertu
• xhyve

Hypothetically you could also install Windows Server natively via Boot Camp and then use Microsoft's Hyper-V to run virtual machines. This however cannot run Mac virtual machines.

You are allowed to run a maximum of two virtual copies of OS X on a real Mac. You can run as many virtual copies of Linux and/or Windows as you want even at the same time as a couple of virtual Macs instances. Some of the above cannot yet run Mac virtual machines - only Linux or Windows.

The maximum number of VMs you can run will depend on the amount of RAM you have and the number of CPU cores you have. So a Mac Pro with 128GB of RAM and 2 x 6-core CPU processors plus the fact each CPU core does hyper-threading can run lots of VMs. (Greater than twelve.)

Apple's Server software does not provide anything for running VMs, nor does OS X itself. It is possible to run OS X in a VM and it is also possible to run Apple's server software both Server.app and Snow Leopard Server in a VM.

Virtual Machines?

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Also can be used in some instances to run other unix variants, so as to retain

the ability to start up in macOS; see BootCamp and other software.

for additional similar topics, see search:

https://www.google.com/#q=virtual+machines+OS+X

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

Hi Qinghai,

- I've used Parallels for a few years now for Windows VMs and Mac VMs without issue.

- Parallels is a 3rd party product. The amount of installed ram and VM config. determines how many VMs can run.

- Typically CPU and SSDs will be factor for performance.

- I run OS X Server VMs and their services are available to clients.

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop

HTH

Cheers, dwbrecovery