Re: Installing older OS X
Re: Installing older OS X
- Subject: Re: Installing older OS X
- From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:16:47 +0000
- Thread-topic: Installing older OS X
> On Nov 17, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Nov 17, 2015, at 21:03 , Charles Srstka <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I can personally vouch for Mountain Lion running well in VMWare. Where it gets hard is when you are running Snow Leopard or earlier, and not for any technological reason—those versions are artificially blocked from running in a virtual machine unless you are running the Server version, due to certain terms in the EULA. Apple seems to have revised the license for Lion and later, though, and those versions generally have no problems running in VMWare (I haven’t tried it in Parallels).
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> I ended up going with VMWare (because Lee Ann, not because I have anything against Parallels). It was straightforward, except that I don’t see that the mechanism for creating an OS X VM is *discoverable* in the app.
Ouch. Trust me, I'm taking notes on the whole thread. D&D is a shortcut, not meant to be the main way to choose it. You only need to pick the Installer app itself, you don't need to dig inside for the dmg - that's how I knew what the dmg path was, I looked it up in that code.
> It would have been clearer, I think, if the initial wizard window showed an entry for choosing an OS X installer, along with the handful of other things that are in its main list.
Hmm... it's the same path as the big button, so a separate button to do the same thing might be more confusing. But we could change the wording and icon - who really uses CDs anymore, anyway?
> They probably don’t want to be too overt about it. Apple’s not going all thermonuclear anymore on VM software allowing their OS anymore, but ya know, don’t want to jinx it.
We actually do; it's a nice feature, we want you to find it. Apple's pretty chill about it as long as we stay inside the lines.
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