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OS X Lion still has no native virtualization capability. Apple is missing out on some serious revenue possibilities which could be just as disruptive to the 'Post-PC' world as the iPad.

I go, and then. What the heck is wrong with this joint, anyway? So my long-time Frugal Tech Show partner-in-crime Ken Hess decides to address Mac OS X's lack of built-in virtualization capability, why Apple needs this technology, and then my beloved Angry Mac Bastards decide to skewer him. Also Read: • (2011) • (2009). But seriously, Scott.

If you've pissed off the, you're doing it right. Back to Mac virtualization. Ken has simply brought the issue to the front and center, in light of Lion's pending release this fall. And he makes a whole bunch of good points about how VDI might be a good way for Apple to break into the enterprise. I'll elaborate on those in just a bit. I noted in my original 2009 article where Apple disclosed their plans for their -- which we now know is going to be the central hub of -- that without virtualization in Mac OS X, they wouldn't be able to pull off sufficient server density if they planned to dogfood their own technology to run said datacenter.

The datacenter appears to run on. The suspense is killing me. With HP external storage enclosures, NetApp NAS filers and TeraData data warehousing appliances, at least from what can be observed in the title photo of this article and in [ UPDATE: Additional WWDC frame-by-frame video analysis appears to indicate Apple has also purchased Oracle and Solaris 10 SPARC systems, presumably for running the Oracle 11i RAC RDBMS and other Oracle Middleware] And what OS runs on those HP Proliants? Well I'm gonna fathom a guess, but it probably aint Mac OS X Server. I'm assuming Apple did not waste valuable software engineering time trying to get HP's enterprise hardware drivers running Mac OS X or on the metal while they were busy planning a massive $1 Billion datacenter buildout, nor are they using existing paravirtualization layers alongside some form of special Apple-baked EFI on the Proliants for it to run on any 3rd-party hypervisor like VMWare, instead of on their old XServes. ( Note: You can run OS X Server virtualized on VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox today, but it only officially works on actual Mac hardware, since it requires an EFI layer.

So the paravirtualization drivers exist, but it's useless to enterprises. VMWare's upcoming vSphere 5 is supposed to support OS X Server, but only on end of life XServe hardware.) Well, maybe they figured out a way to run on them, but one would think they would have bought the whole dang Parallels company if they intended to do that. They didn't, and it would have cost them next to nothing to do it. My bet is that in order to secure a fully supported service contract with HP, they had to load a certified OS on them. Why I am I betting this? Because I know something about large datacenter service contracts and you can read my disclosure statement at the bottom of this post that proves it. If Apple is stupid enough to run a billion dollars worth of hardware strictly on the metal, that certified OS is either Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris 10 x86, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.

If they were smart enough to virtualize a large portion of their environment to increase density, which I suspect Apple is doing, it's running VMWare ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer or RHEV (KVM), on top of which could lie a mix of anything. The likely candidate for most of the stack, at least for the important middleware is which would probably be the path of least resistance to port/install and a number of other key Apple server-based technologies that make up the iCloud systems architecture, because it is fully supported as a paravirtualized guest on VMWare ESX.

Apple could also run FreeBSD and use 'Jails' to create virtual environments on the metal on the Proliants, but I think that is considered to be best-effort currently. Nutshell summary?

Apple's datacenter isn't Mac. However, I do believe that Apple is eventually going to have to port a native hypervisor to Mac OS X or allow it to be paravirtualized on 3rd-party hardware, such as HPs. Firstly, because I know that Steve Jobs is probably frothing at the mouth to have to pay HP very expensive special custom support for their own datacenter if they are running some weird combination of software that isn't supported under regular contract rates. Secondly, Apple knows they have a perfectly good server OS with OS X Lion and the idea of having to run something like Linux or FreeBSD for their key back end systems probably doesn't sit well with them, long term. There's also another issue here.