Parallels For Mac Os 10.6.8
Legally, only the server versions of OSX 10.5 or 10.6 can be used in a virtual machine, if running on Apple hardware. (Apple allows 10.7 'desktop' as well as server to be run in a virtual machine, again on Apple hardware.)
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Parallels recommends a minimum of 4GB memory, if you want to run Windows 7, or if your host OS is Lion. I'm sure Win 8 will like that much, or more. (Don't forget that when using Parallels with Windows, you are running TWO operating systems at the same time. If you go online to Parallels, the current version of Parallels, (optimized to work with OS X Lion) is Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac. If you're on Parallels 5 (or newer), the upgrade to Parallels 7 is about $50 and you can download it right away.
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There is quite a bit of differing opinion as to whether the Apple's EULA actually does forbid virtualizing OSX 'desktop'. Apple's EULA uses typical legalese vagueness so the debate rages. Me personally, I feel that the EULA does not specifically forbid virtualization, but the major vendors in virtualization all say otherwise:
The belief is that there were discussions between Apple's lawyers and the vendors lawyers and NDAs so no one is really able to clear this up. The assumption is that because Apple wants to sell hardware, there's not much incentive for them to allow virtualizing the older versions of OSX.
But bottom line, while it may be possible, it's not supported by the virtualization vendors so you're on your own if anything goes wrong. For fully supported methods of running older versions of OSX, you can either dual-boot your existing older machine, or scour eBay and Craigslist for older Macs that still can run Leopard or Snow Leopard.
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Oct 21, 2011 11:53 AM
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I'm not dismissing the fact that you are having issues, and that is unfortunate, but I don't believe these are systemic issues, but are specific to your environment. Because in reality, if these issues were systemic, then MANY more users would be experiencing the same, and we'd hear about it, more importantly VMWare would likely be able to reproduce it and thus fix it.
Some suggestions before you give up on Fusion.., create a new partition on your drive or get an external drive, and do a fresh install of whatever macOS you use on the new partition or external drive. Your 'regular' working system won't be at risk at all. AFter the fresh install of macOS, don't install any other apps, add ons, tweaks etc, don't change or add anything, just install Fusion, that's it, and load a saved VM image. If no errors, then something about your everyday working system may be causing the errors. If you get the same errors, then possibly the VM image(s) you use are corrupted. To confirm that, install a new one virtual machine, like a copy of macOS or Windows from scratch. Don't worry about activation, you just want to test if it runs. If no issues, then that suggests your working images might be corrupted, either literally in the file image itself, or internally in the operating system running within the VM.
These are just suggestions, peace, and good luck.