MacOS – What are the licensing concerns running Mac OS X guest OS on VMWare ESXi 5.5 with non-apple hardware

This article references VMware Workstation 6 as being able to run OS X with some hacks, but it's slow. But more importantly, that article runs down what I thought was the only known solution to running OS X in a VM: VirtualBox. So you aren't going to be able to do this with Fusion, but you can do it with VirtualBox.

Also: Apple does allow virtualization of OS X Server (check the date on that article - circa 2007). It honestly wouldn't stand much of a chance in the big, corporate IT world if it couldn't be legally virtualized these days.

As I use it on regular basis I can say it's good performance of using Bootcamp installed windows via VMWare Fusion 3.

Here is process I followed.

1. Make a bootcamp partition using Bootcamp Assistant for the space.
2. Install the Windows XP version.
3. Open the VMware and select the bootcamp partition, when you create a new virtual machine for Windows.
4. VMWare installs few utilities on the bootcamp partition, to use it to boot via Fusion.
5. Once all this is done, you can launch this windows version like a normal virtual machine in Fusion.

If I want a lite usage of windows I will boot via Fusion, if I want to run heavy programs then I will boot into Bootcamp, but I rarely does it, as Fusion VM is 99% OK for me for all activities including development with Eclipse.