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Re: Mojave in a VM?

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Mojave in a VM?
Date 2018-09-29 17:36 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
Message-ID <slrnpqve07.12e8.g.kreme@jaka.local> (permalink)
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In message <DaKdnUTMfudwEjLGnZ2dnUU7-XednZ2d@giganews.com> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2018-09-28 13:42, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <1nvty5h.svsrrilh3xjN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>>> The only application I've found so far with a signficant new problem is
>>> Pages 4.3 (Pages '09) which gets an error message when attempting to
>>> open any document. Oddly, Numbers and Keynote '09 aren't doing the same
>>> thing, but they already had other problems in High Sierra which meant I
>>> had stopped using them. I'm still using Pages '09 because of ongoing
>>> collaborative projects with other people using that version, but we
>>> should be able to move to the latest version.
>> 
>> You can also run a VM of Sierra or something under Mojave. I mean, I
>> wouldn't want to do it full time on my 6 year old iMac, but it should be
>> fine on any recent machine with 16GB of RAM or more.

> My iMac (i7) is 6 years old and I have little doubt that it would run an 
> OS under Fusion w/o much issue.  24 GB of RAM doesn't hurt either.

Sounds like we have the same machine., I know it will run it, but I
wouldn't want to run it full time.

> OTOH I'm running Fusion 7 - which might not be able to run Mojave.

The Parallels Desktop Lite (Free) runs OS X in a VM just fine. It should
run Mojave as well though I haven't specifically tried that.

-- 
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

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Mojave in a VM? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-09-27 11:20 -0400
  Re: Mojave in a VM? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 11:52 -0400
  Re: Mojave in a VM? "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2018-09-27 10:00 -0600
  Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-09-28 09:18 +1200
    Re: Mojave in a VM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-28 17:42 +0000
      Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-09-29 11:59 +1200
      Re: Mojave in a VM? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-09-29 10:45 -0400
        Re: Mojave in a VM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-29 17:36 +0000
          Re: Mojave in a VM? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-09-29 13:37 -0400
        Re: Mojave in a VM? Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2018-09-29 23:56 -0700
  Re: Mojave in a VM? befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2018-09-28 09:24 +0200
  Re: Mojave in a VM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-28 17:30 +0000
    Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-09-29 11:59 +1200
      Re: Mojave in a VM? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-28 20:06 -0400
        Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-09-29 12:43 +1200
          Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-10-01 13:15 +1300
            Re: Mojave in a VM? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-10-01 01:58 -0400
            Re: Mojave in a VM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-10-01 13:22 +0000
              Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-10-02 02:59 +1300
                Re: Mojave in a VM? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-10-01 10:08 -0400
                Re: Mojave in a VM? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-10-01 13:37 -0400
                Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-10-02 13:30 +1300
                Re: Mojave in a VM? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-10-02 00:37 +0000
                Re: Mojave in a VM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-10-02 09:28 +0000
                Re: Mojave in a VM? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-10-01 19:43 +0000
                Re: Mojave in a VM? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-10-02 13:30 +1300
  Re: Mojave in a VM? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-09-28 17:02 -0400

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