When I saw the announcement that OSX would be an officially supported guest OS for vSphere 5, I was pretty excited. Being an Apple fan and a home lab guy, my first thought was I could run Snow Leopard as a VM and treat it as a centralized iTunes server. It was announced that it would only run on the (now retired) Xserve hardware, but I figured for home lab purposes I could at least create the VM to test things out.
I quickly realized it wasn’t going to happen, my home lab does not contain any Xserve servers to use as vSphere hosts, they are whitebox ESXi hosts. I was able to create the VM with a guest type of OS X 10.6 (64-bit) but as soon as I tried to power it on I was greeted with the following message:
So there is some type of checking that happens to ensure that Apple virtual machines will only run on Apple hardware. The other thing I found interesting is that virtual machines with a guest type of OSX don’t migrate off the host when going into maintenance mode.
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