which mac os x can I put as guest?

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armelasselin

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Hello,

I used to have a Mac OS X Tiger (10.4?) on my Mac book pro, and upgraded to 10.5.5.
Can I install my original Tiger in a virtual machine?

Armel
 
Hello armelasselin.

Now only Mac OS X Server products (10.5 or newer) could be installed as Guest OS. For more detailes please look at this page.
 
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disciple said:
Hello armelasselin.

Now only Mac OS X Server products (10.5 or newer) could be installed as Guest OS. For more detailes please look at this page.
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OK, however, is 10.4 runnable but you do not care, so it is not supported. Or is it known not to run?
Do you expect to make some effort on running 10.4 versions? basically, being able to run older OS helps for the purpose of testing our own software.

thx,
Armel
 
Running of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) as a virtual Guest OS is forbidden by Apple. They allows to use their OSes in Virtual Machines starting from Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
 
Problem

I have a dmg copy of 10.5 OS X server and wants to install it as a virtual machine under PDesktop 4.0 (3522). Starting from scratch (new machine) works fine, the image is mounted and I'm walked through the standard set of OS X server installation options. One strange thing is that it offers to install it on the main hard disk not on the soft disk created by parallels for this machine. Assuming this is a typo and proceeding yields unfortunately: Install Failed - The installer could not install some files in /Volumes/MAcintosh HD. Restart.


Restarting proceeds to the point of displaying Apple logo and progress indication where it stays forever. No way apparently to force it to restart again from that .dmg image.

Sugguestions?
 
Leopard Client guest

Hi,

The Parallels documentation only lists Mac OS X server products as supported guests. Can anyone confirm that its not feasible to run a Leopard client system in Parallels 5? Are there workarounds?

Snow Leopard has a serious bug in Core Data (multi-machine access issue) which isn't going to be fixed any time soon so I would like a guest Leopard system for my clients.

Cheers,

Steve
 
Steve Steinitz said:
Hi,

The Parallels documentation only lists Mac OS X server products as supported guests. Can anyone confirm that its not feasible to run a Leopard client system in Parallels 5? Are there workarounds?

Snow Leopard has a serious bug in Core Data (multi-machine access issue) which isn't going to be fixed any time soon so I would like a guest Leopard system for my clients.
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Hi,
unfortunately, it is only allowed to install and run Server-systems, because Apple-license currently forbids running Client in Virtual Machines. So, Parallels does explicit checking.
 
Hi Elric,

Thanks for the reply. I wonder if Apple's license was intended to prevent running client versions of their OS on non-Apple hardware. That would make sense. And that they wouldn't be too worried about running virtualized clients on their own hardware.

Steve
 
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