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blackxacto

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I need some documents from an application for The New Yorker Magazine. But it only runs in Leopard. I've never fooled w virtual installations.
 

Wowfunhappy

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Yes, you are going to need a VM! :) I very highly doubt your Mac is old enough to run Leopard natively.

I highly recommend VMWare Fusion, which I’ve found has the best performance by far for Mac guests. Then you will need to track down a copy of Leopard Server—you might try eBay—and a way to read the optical disc. From there, VMWare should guide you through everything!
 

blackxacto

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Yes, you are going to need a VM! :) I very highly doubt your Mac is old enough to run Leopard natively.

I highly recommend VMWare Fusion, which I’ve found has the best performance by far for Mac guests. Then you will need to track down a copy of Leopard Server—you might try eBay—and a way to read the optical disc. From there, VMWare should guide you through everything!
Why isnt the leopard install disk enough?
 

chrfr

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Why isnt the leopard install disk enough?
It's because of licensing restrictions. In the older versions of OS X, only the server versions were licensed to be virtualized, so VMware blocked installations of the non-server version in order to comply with that.
 
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blackxacto

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It's because of licensing restrictions. In the older versions of OS X, only the server versions were licensed to be virtualized, so VMware blocked installations of the non-server version in order to comply with that.
Oh, gish. Ok.
 
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