Installing Snow Leopard Server as guest on Parallels 7

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TimCim

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Does anyone have instructions for how to install Snow Leopard Server as guest on Parallels 7?

I have the disk image for Snow Leopard Server as a .dmg file. When I attempt the install, it starts and processes for a while and then just hangs on the grey Apple booting screen after a few minutes.
 
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Hello Tim,
Without any help from the documentation, support staff or menus, I was finally able to perform this very same installation by trial and error.
You pretend you are installing Windows, and only after you specify that you have a disk image and it tries to open it, THEN you are presented with a drop down menu to indicate that it is actually a Mac OS installer, and from there it runs just like installing on any other Mac computer.
Why this starts with a Windows intro, instead of just indicating installation from a disk/image, is a true mystery.
 
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I was finally able to install Snow Leopard Server on the latest version of Parallels.
It would not install from any of the disk images that I created in multiple formats... .dmg .iso or .cdr
I used the actual installation DVD (physical media) and Parallels finally recognized it and installed.
It was slow and noisy chugging away at the DVD...but finally installed.

I believe there is a problem with Parallels in that it will not recognize a valid disk image of Snow Leopard Server.
Hopefully this will be fixed in a future release.
 
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