I've got 10.6 running on a 2006 MacBook Pro. I want to run some older software that was meant for 10.4 and earlier, so I figured I'd install Tiger in VMware Fusion, but it isn't working. Any idea how I'd go about it?
What I've tried:
When creating a new VM, there's no option for Tiger. It only offers 10.5 server and 10.6 server. I tried using the 10.5 server option with a Tiger disk image, but with no luck: gives me this error:
Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization.
To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Fusion supports hardware virtualization.
Any thoughts?
Best Answer
This article references VMware Workstation 6 as being able to run OS X with some hacks, but it's slow. But more importantly, that article runs down what I thought was the only known solution to running OS X in a VM: VirtualBox. So you aren't going to be able to do this with Fusion, but you can do it with VirtualBox.
Also: Apple does allow virtualization of OS X Server (check the date on that article - circa 2007). It honestly wouldn't stand much of a chance in the big, corporate IT world if it couldn't be legally virtualized these days.