![]() ![]() Wow, they really don’t want me to open this app! Doing so showed me a very fast, very efficient door to the immediate panicking and restarting of my Mac. ![]() Whoah, did Apple blacklist VMware Fusion 4.1.0 as of 10.8.1? /danielpunkass/…ĭamn you, Apple! I’ll show you, I’ll just jump into the terminal and run it from the command line. Knowing that this version of VMware inadvertently defies Apple’s virtualization policy, and believing that there’s no way for the app to be identifying itself as incompatible with the current version of Mac OS X, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that Apple was “blacklisting” the app for political reasons: If one was inclined to defy this, then having a copy of 4.1.0 around to run virtual machines would be pretty handy. Apple officially forbids the virtualization of Mac OS X “client” operating system releases prior to 10.7. Now it so happens that VMware 4.1.0 shipped with a bug that many folks have found convenient. Mac OS X will display a similar failure when an application is so old that it doesn’t contain code that was compiled for the appropriate CPU on the computer, but the code in this VMware 4.1.0 executable is 64-bit Intel code that my Mac should be able to run. Mac OS X supports the ability for applications to specify in their “ist” files the minimum system version they require, but as far as I know there are no keys for specifying the maximum system version. Today I went to launch VMware 4.1.0 on my OS X 10.8.1 Mac and was met with this surprising refusal to open:
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