It also works with Tiger, even if it’s more complicated to find a DVD with a x86 system, as Apple never retailed any.Ī thing to know is that trying to make a disk image with the disk utility is useless : it will not work. If it is a grey version provided with a machine, you will first have to modify it so that it could be installed on any Mac. So this tip is clearly in opposition to the Mac OS X license : it consists in modifying a classic version of Mac OS X to make the virtualization software believe it is a server version.įirst thing to do, find a DVD of Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 and make an picture. The MacOS X license does not allow to virtualize the customer versions of the system, even if sometimes the developers ignore it, as with version 4.1 of VMWare Fusion … But as it is perfectly legal to virtualize Mac OS X versions in its dedicated server, it is possible to override the limitation. Today, I will show you a trick that will help you to virtualize easily Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) with VMWare Fusion 4.11 (the latest).

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