To the other poster: I'm sure Apple waited a long time to try to force folks to upgrade. I've been using the license from a decommissioned server of one of my Clients, with their permission of course, however for that price I like having my own copy and license. Sorry about that.ĭlhotka wrote: Bingo - I bought one just to keep on the shelf in case I ever have to access one of the old backups. I guess you must have paid hundreds of bucks for it. But I'm sure it is possible to use unixy guests, so now I'm leaning towards it cause it just seems to work better.īy the way IMO the only thing crazy about the $20 price for Snow Leopard Server is how long it took for Apple to address the needs of Rosetta users. I started this process leaning heavily towards Fusion because I've used it before and because Parallels seems to focus so heavily on Windows it's hard to find information on other guests. Again, Parallels worked right the first try. I had to restart the VM and try again twice before it finally worked. In other news, I also had trouble installing the software I wanted to run on Snow Leopard Server (from a physical DVD). installing from the physical DVD involves a lot of seeking that makes irritating noises. I think the other poster is correct, it is actually faster to make a DMG then install from that. Finally I tried again to make the dmg and it worked and I was able to install from that on Fusion. I tried again installing on Fusion 5 from the physical disk: no dice. Then I installed on Parallels from the physical disk with no issues. I saw a smudge on the DVD that looked like a small scratch, so I wiped it off. In the meantime I was downloading the Parallels demo. I tried to make a dmg with Disk Utility twice and it failed. I need this installation for an old app that requires rosetta and this kludge seems to be the only way I can get it.īy the way my host is a Macbook 5,1 running Mountain Lion. Has anyway successfully installed snow leopard server on fusion 5? So I went through the whole uninstall-reinstall procedure 2 more times, restarting between each of course. The first time I did that I must have missed something, because when I tried to install fusion 5 again it already knew my trial license key. I deleted the app, even my old virtual machines. I thought perhaps something from my old VMware Fusion 2 installation was creating problems, so I followed the instructions at knowledge base article 1017838 to uninstall everything. The Installer could not copy the necessary support files.Ĭlick Restart to restart your computer and try installing again. Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer It always stops bringing up a screen saying: I downloaded the trial version of vmware fusion 5.0.2 and tried to install. I just got my shiny new Snow Leopard Server 10.6.3 DVD from Apple (yes, it was $19.99 and I had to telephone, the chat operator at the online apple store didn't know about it).