Jeffrey Fletcher1709156626 Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I've seen a few articles and/or comments that there was talk about a VDA for Mac OS. Most of those posts are a few years old. Does anyone have any new news regarding this? Are they still looking into doing this? Link to comment
0 Andrew Rosenau Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I'm not sure what the point of this would be as you legally can only run the Mac OS on Mac Hardware. So unless you wanted a bunch of physical macs in a closet then there really isn't much point. Link to comment
0 Jeffrey Fletcher1709156626 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 Funny you should mention that: that is exactly what I'm looking to do. I was thinking of putting the VDA on a Mac Mini to allow remote access to the device (don't ask....long story....). Thank you very much for the reply. 2 Link to comment
0 Nick Prignano1709154756 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 So much potential, so little hope! Link to comment
0 Joseph Moses1709151766 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 If you can get the VDA to run on OS X you can virtualize the APPS on OS X. Not sure if you would need VDA to be a native OS X app or if you could run it as a WINE or PORTING KIT (basically inside a small VM). It is something worth looking into, but I have not the time to play with this. Link to comment
0 Stuart Rosner Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 So now that the new MacPro is out with the ability to rack 28 cores and 1.5 of RAM it's time to visit this again. You could legally run MacOS VDIs on Fusion and use Citrix as the transport and display protocol. With some reasonable overcommit on the pCores you could squeeze quite a few VMs on the new Pro. In the end, this is just a twist on the Linux VDA. Link to comment
0 Steve Custer1709161595 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 On 12/14/2019 at 6:53 AM, Stuart Rosner said: So now that the new MacPro is out with the ability to rack 28 cores and 1.5 of RAM it's time to visit this again. You could legally run MacOS VDIs on Fusion and use Citrix as the transport and display protocol. With some reasonable overcommit on the pCores you could squeeze quite a few VMs on the new Pro. In the end, this is just a twist on the Linux VDA. I have a use case for this as well - remote access for 50+ Mac users to their own desktop. I'd love to see some traction on this before I have to do something crazy for these users. Link to comment
0 Stuart Rosner Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 It seems that the T2 security chip is holding up VMware from adding support for the new MacPro to ESXi, as well as Apple updating the license agreement to allow more than two MacOS VMs / Physical Apple machine. Time for Apple / VMware and Citrix to talk. Enterprises want to be able to provide MacOS VMs to remote users while keeping data and intellectual property in the data center. Years and years ago at the Citrix Partner summit Mark Tempelton did a demo which showed off remote access to a Mac via XenDesktop, obviously a developmental version of the MacOS VDA existed at that time. Seems like an easy port from the LVDA, however, from experience I can tell you that support for the LVDA is weak at best. Link to comment
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Jeffrey Fletcher1709156626
I've seen a few articles and/or comments that there was talk about a VDA for Mac OS. Most of those posts are a few years old.
Does anyone have any new news regarding this? Are they still looking into doing this?
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