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Installing Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) into Parallels on modern Intel Macs
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SuperDrive.cdr
Went back and started from Step 1 again.
I now have a SuperDrive.cdr file.
new-host-2:~ Thomas$ hdiutil convert SuperDrive.sparseimage -format UDTO -o SuperDrive
Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)
Reading WINDOWSSUPPORT (Apple_ISO : 1)
Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)
Reading Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 3)
................
Reading (Apple_Free : 4)
Reading Mac_OS_X (Apple_HFS : 5)
..............................................................................................................................
Elapsed Time: 5m 54.711s
Speed: 20.9Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Users/Thomas/SuperDrive.cdr
On to Step 2.
Went back and started from Step 1 again.
I now have a SuperDrive.cdr file.
new-host-2:~ Thomas$ hdiutil convert SuperDrive.sparseimage -format UDTO -o SuperDrive
Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)
Reading WINDOWSSUPPORT (Apple_ISO : 1)
Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)
Reading Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 3)
................
Reading (Apple_Free : 4)
Reading Mac_OS_X (Apple_HFS : 5)
..............................................................................................................................
Elapsed Time: 5m 54.711s
Speed: 20.9Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Users/Thomas/SuperDrive.cdr
On to Step 2.
When you have completed your installation of Snow Leopard, be sure to share with us which PowerPC applications you will be using there!
Good luck!
Good luck!
Speed Bump
Alas, at the end of Step 2/#7 the following error message appeared.
An invalid Mac OS version is installed.
Mac OS X virtual machines can have only the Mac OS X Server Leopard or Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard operating system installed. Other versions of Mac OS are not supported.
Back to the drawing board.
Alas, at the end of Step 2/#7 the following error message appeared.
An invalid Mac OS version is installed.
Mac OS X virtual machines can have only the Mac OS X Server Leopard or Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard operating system installed. Other versions of Mac OS are not supported.
Back to the drawing board.
Did you try this troubleshooting suggestion from Cautionary Notes in Post #3?
Troubleshooting Step #2 - usually resulting in the Dialog Box: "An invalid Mac OS version is installed" before Snow Leopard ever properly functions in Parallels 7
Troubleshooting Step #2 - usually resulting in the Dialog Box: "An invalid Mac OS version is installed" before Snow Leopard ever properly functions in Parallels 7
OK, thanks for reminding me.
Following the troubleshooting steps, a Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Parallels Desktop window appeared, with Darwin boot loader in the upper left, and a DVD icon in the center with Mac OS X Install DVD under it.
Clicking on the DVD icon results in the cursor disappearing and nothing else. Pressing Ctrl + Alt brings back the cursor but nothing else happens. No way to get past this.
I can't seem to get to Step 2/#8.
Following the troubleshooting steps, a Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Parallels Desktop window appeared, with Darwin boot loader in the upper left, and a DVD icon in the center with Mac OS X Install DVD under it.
Clicking on the DVD icon results in the cursor disappearing and nothing else. Pressing Ctrl + Alt brings back the cursor but nothing else happens. No way to get past this.
I can't seem to get to Step 2/#8.
I have to go offline for an hour. I'll check back to see if you are still available when I get back.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Installing Snow Leopard in Parallels 8 on Mountain Lion
I am trying to install the Snow Leopard OS in order to be able to run Quicken 2004 for Mac, Adobe Acrobat and a few others. I read your reply to my first post (370) and am still trying to get is process to work. Since I'm using Mountain Lion as my main OS I have been following as well the Troubleshooting Step One. All goes okay until I try to verify the "SystemVersion.plist" file has been created and it seems it has not. When I open Terminal and paste the copied line I have the SuperDrive highlighted in Disk Utility. I'm not sure if this is correct or does it matter what, if anything, is highlighted?
I am trying to install the Snow Leopard OS in order to be able to run Quicken 2004 for Mac, Adobe Acrobat and a few others. I read your reply to my first post (370) and am still trying to get is process to work. Since I'm using Mountain Lion as my main OS I have been following as well the Troubleshooting Step One. All goes okay until I try to verify the "SystemVersion.plist" file has been created and it seems it has not. When I open Terminal and paste the copied line I have the SuperDrive highlighted in Disk Utility. I'm not sure if this is correct or does it matter what, if anything, is highlighted?
Gal: Before I can help you with the installation, here are some tips about your software:
Intuit now sells for $15 Quicken 2007 for Lion (and upgraded for Mt. Lion) at this link
However you need to update your Quicken 2004 data file on a PowerPC Mac first using Quicken 2006 PPC. Go to this link at Intuit and download a free copy of Quicken 2006 PPC
Use Quicken 2006 PPC to open your Quicken 2004 data file and it should convert it for you.
Then you can open the newly converted data file with the Quicken 2007 for Lion that you purchase from Intuit.
Many of Adobe Acrobat's features can now be replicated with other software that runs in Lion or Mt. Lion, such as Apple's Preview, any print dialog box can now save as PDF and PDF Squeezer ($2 from the App Store; which will shrink many bloated PDF file sizes by up to 90% with little or no loss of quality).
Also Adobe now has a free download for Acrobat Standard 7.0 and Acrobat Pro 8.0 at this link
What other PowerPC apps do you want to run.
Intuit now sells for $15 Quicken 2007 for Lion (and upgraded for Mt. Lion) at this link
However you need to update your Quicken 2004 data file on a PowerPC Mac first using Quicken 2006 PPC. Go to this link at Intuit and download a free copy of Quicken 2006 PPC
Use Quicken 2006 PPC to open your Quicken 2004 data file and it should convert it for you.
Then you can open the newly converted data file with the Quicken 2007 for Lion that you purchase from Intuit.
Many of Adobe Acrobat's features can now be replicated with other software that runs in Lion or Mt. Lion, such as Apple's Preview, any print dialog box can now save as PDF and PDF Squeezer ($2 from the App Store; which will shrink many bloated PDF file sizes by up to 90% with little or no loss of quality).
Also Adobe now has a free download for Acrobat Standard 7.0 and Acrobat Pro 8.0 at this link
What other PowerPC apps do you want to run.
Installing Snow Leopard into Parallels 8 on Mountain Lion
Thanks for your help vis-a-vis the Quicken upgrade idea. We will be looking into that and with any luck it will be a much easier way to accomplish what we need and that is to be able to transfer the database from the former treasurer who was running Snow Leopard to my iMac which is running Mountain Lion. As for other programs I'd like to run in SL - Acrobat 6. It is not important that I get this installed. I have other software that does the same thing which I run off of Windows 7 in Parallels. Here's hoping the Quicken upgrade works. Meanwhile - anyone need a non-machine-specific copy of Snow Leopard (Cdn $s) since I don't think I'll be needing it.
Thanks for your help vis-a-vis the Quicken upgrade idea. We will be looking into that and with any luck it will be a much easier way to accomplish what we need and that is to be able to transfer the database from the former treasurer who was running Snow Leopard to my iMac which is running Mountain Lion. As for other programs I'd like to run in SL - Acrobat 6. It is not important that I get this installed. I have other software that does the same thing which I run off of Windows 7 in Parallels. Here's hoping the Quicken upgrade works. Meanwhile - anyone need a non-machine-specific copy of Snow Leopard (Cdn $s) since I don't think I'll be needing it.
The best solution is being able to avoid having to run Snow Leopard (Rosetta) in virtualization; but it is here for those that have a continuing need to do so!
If you want to attempt its installation into Parallels once more, trying accomplishing STEP ONE on your Treasurer's Snow Leopard Mac, and them move the file SuperDrive.cdr over to your Mountain Lion Mac and complete the remaining steps there.
Let me know how it goes...
If you want to attempt its installation into Parallels once more, trying accomplishing STEP ONE on your Treasurer's Snow Leopard Mac, and them move the file SuperDrive.cdr over to your Mountain Lion Mac and complete the remaining steps there.
Let me know how it goes...
Eudora still working?
Wondering if Eudoras still working for you with (I presume) all Eudora folders, data stored in ML environment. (Presuming Eudora Application files refers to Eudora Folder where all mail data resides, since Eudora app wont run in VM if stored on host.)
I just tried having Eudora Folder in Lion environ, outside VM as recommended, but crucial resource forks soon got separated from their files, preventing Eudora from reading or working further with any of the data.
If youre still succeeding with Eudora, would love to know details of your setup.
SL VM did fine for weeks with Eudora Folder stored on its virtual hdd, but then the VM got corrupted and I couldnt repair, so learned hard way not to store data inside VM.
Also found Lion Finder chews resource forks, so cant use it to copy Eudora files. Copying between shared Lion folders from within SL VM preserves the forks at least some of the time.
Was using Parallels Sharing but it apparently cant handle large amounts of data at once, especially unable to deal with thousands of items in Eudora folders. (I have well over decade of data.)
But now using OSX File Sharing,* resource forks again got disconnected from corresponding files, so Eudora cant load its Folder.
*supersonic compared to Parallels FS
Hoping youve got it all figured out!
Thinking I may have to go back to storing Eudora Folder inside VM but with frequent backups (hourly or more). But Im unwilling to trust Lion Finder, so would need to back up to a separate disk from my Time Machine disk, but have no free USB port.
So bad the cloud(s) suffocated Qualcomms incomparable app!
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Wondering if Eudoras still working for you with (I presume) all Eudora folders, data stored in ML environment. (Presuming Eudora Application files refers to Eudora Folder where all mail data resides, since Eudora app wont run in VM if stored on host.)
I just tried having Eudora Folder in Lion environ, outside VM as recommended, but crucial resource forks soon got separated from their files, preventing Eudora from reading or working further with any of the data.
If youre still succeeding with Eudora, would love to know details of your setup.
SL VM did fine for weeks with Eudora Folder stored on its virtual hdd, but then the VM got corrupted and I couldnt repair, so learned hard way not to store data inside VM.
Also found Lion Finder chews resource forks, so cant use it to copy Eudora files. Copying between shared Lion folders from within SL VM preserves the forks at least some of the time.
Was using Parallels Sharing but it apparently cant handle large amounts of data at once, especially unable to deal with thousands of items in Eudora folders. (I have well over decade of data.)
But now using OSX File Sharing,* resource forks again got disconnected from corresponding files, so Eudora cant load its Folder.
*supersonic compared to Parallels FS
Hoping youve got it all figured out!
Thinking I may have to go back to storing Eudora Folder inside VM but with frequent backups (hourly or more). But Im unwilling to trust Lion Finder, so would need to back up to a separate disk from my Time Machine disk, but have no free USB port.
So bad the cloud(s) suffocated Qualcomms incomparable app!
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Fusion is not something that I have worked with much.
You can do more research on that subject starting here
You can do more research on that subject starting here
Yes, I followed MichaelLAX's instructions with only minor changes where the Fusion interface is different to Parallels. Try it!
If you need audio in the Snow Leopard VM, these steps work (after you have got SL running):
1. In host VM settings: Add the sound device.
2. In SL: Install sound drivers from EnsoniqAudioPCI_v1.0.3_Common_Installer.pkg which is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/files/?source=dlp
3. Shutdown SL and, in host, modify:
VM's .vmx file, there should be a section like this one:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
... which after editing should then become:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
4. Boot SL.
Note that I found these steps on the web, they are not original.
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There seem to be two approaches to SL with VMware Fusion:
1. Patch Fusion so it doesn't test for server or non-server version of SL. This is the approach I have most often found on the web and is in your link. I don't like it very much as (a) there seems a risk of creating a non-working version of Fusion and (b) you need to find a new patch with a new version of Fusion.
2. Patch the install 'disk' and the virtual machine to pretend to be server SL at the moments when the host software (be it Fusion or Parallels) asks the question. Then any issues which arise can only be in the SL vm and not the host software.
Two is, of course, your technique and which I think is much to be preferred. And it works for both Fusion and Parallels.
Good work!
I commented about my approach to the Comments to the linked blog and he called my approach a hack and his approach a patch! After more discussions, he did not like one of my comments and deleted the complete discourse!
I commented about my approach to the Comments to the linked blog and he called my approach a hack and his approach a patch! After more discussions, he did not like one of my comments and deleted the complete discourse!
Brilliant!
And I was agonising as to whether to use the word 'patch' or 'hack' in my post. How rude to have your discussion deleted. Wear the 'hack' word as badge of honour.
Or in Parallels!
I guess you did NOT read my Cautionary Notes (post #3) as indicated in the Preliminary part of my first post.
While it may be the most trouble free, a decision on which one is "best" would have to include the cost of both approaches.
Snow Leopard Server, which when sold by Apple cost $399 and up, is no longer sold by Apple. Sources such as Amazon and eBay can fluctuate in price, but I have seen it recently sell for around $125.
Also some people do not like using the Snow Leopard Server interface as compared to regular client version.
So, each must do what is "best" for them! That is what explaining the options is all about!
I guess you did NOT read my Cautionary Notes (post #3) as indicated in the Preliminary part of my first post.
While it may be the most trouble free, a decision on which one is "best" would have to include the cost of both approaches.
Snow Leopard Server, which when sold by Apple cost $399 and up, is no longer sold by Apple. Sources such as Amazon and eBay can fluctuate in price, but I have seen it recently sell for around $125.
Also some people do not like using the Snow Leopard Server interface as compared to regular client version.
So, each must do what is "best" for them! That is what explaining the options is all about!