Jason Snell, for Macworld:

On Friday, we reported that VMware Fusion 4.1 can run virtual versions of Leopard and Snow Leopard, a feature previously barred by Apple’s end-user license agreement. On Monday, the other shoe dropped: VMware posted a blog entry that seems to back away from that feature.“When the license verification step was added in VMware Fusion 4.1 the server edition check was omitted,” the post says. “We are preparing an update.”

Eyebrows raised when the VMWare 4.1 update enabled users to install older versions of Mac OS X on virtual machines – something that would be really handy to IT professionals, developers and others, but something that heretofore hadn’t been supported.

The passive language used in describing the omission fails to pinpoint whether this was intentional or accidental, but one thing’s for sure – think carefully about updating VMware, if you’ve already downloaded 4.1 and are benefiting from the new, apparently unintentional, functionality.