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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Snow Leopard Server won't install
Date: 7 Mar 2014 14:50:21 GMT
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On 2014-03-07, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> [snipped steps describing creating and using a disk image of 10.6 Server
>> to install into a VMware Fusion virtual machine]
>> 
>> That's basically the same procedure I used to create a 10.6 *client* VM.
>> Works great!
>
> Same version of VMware Fusion?
>
> If OS X 10.6 client worked with VMware Fusion 6, their code to check
> must be broken again. It was broken in version 4.1.0, which was rapidly
> pulled and replaced with 4.1.1 (which refused to allow installing 10.6
> client, like versions prior to 4.1.0). 4.1.0 was also removed from their
> archives of old versions.
>
>> (One difference is rather than using a virtual disk for the VM storage, I
>> used a partition on a hard drive I'm using as a Boot Camp drive - also
>> for a VM.)
>
> I would have expected the checks to apply whether using a virtual disk
> or a real one.
>
> When I get a chance, I'll try installing 10.6 client in a VM (on a
> virtual disk), just to see if it still rejected.

I have it running in VMware Fusion 6.0.2 right now. Not sure what
version I was at when I originally created the VM. It's been a year or
so since I initially set it up. I think the way around that restriction
was to install it on a physical partition/volume, and then point Fusion
to that partition/volume.  Like I said, I have a Boot Camp volume I also
use for Fusion (for better speed); and I installed 10.6 on a partition
on that same volume.

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