I've been on technical support for an hour now, after spending an hour yesterday trying to upgrade from 3 to 4.
I strongly recommend that anyone considering upgrading from 3 to 4 wait until they get this working. To make matters worse, I have to deal with these foreigners who speak lousy English, who can't hear (probably because they're crammed into a sweatshop), and they ask for all the same information I've just spent an hour giving them.
I HATE THEIR TECH SUPPORT.
If I had known I would never have wasted my money on this awful upgrade.
Uninstalling Parallels 4, talking to their *tier 2* guy... by tier 2, I think he's just at another desk. Knows not much more than I do about Parallels. Different accent, harder to understand... hasn't gotten me any farther yet.
He directed me to put in the Windows disk, which I did, and then to configure Parallels to start Windows from the disk... did that. Ran Windows, it crashes, check the settings, and Parallels has reset itself to use an image file rather than the Windows disk. Nice.
I guess I was lucky because I downloaded the upgrade on http://www.novadevelopment.com/pu4/default.aspx , and had no problems installing it. By the way version 4 works way better than version 3, games and other apps run much faster.
Client and Server *are* identical in every aspect of the kernel and OS. The differences are in what comes in addition to server and removal of some things that conflict (like personal file sharing).
So is there a way to tweak Parallels to allow virtualization of Tiger under Leopard? I've been using ViaVoice for OS X and have trained it on thousands of words unique to my very specialized area of work. ViaVoice breaks under Leopard on my MacBook Pro, although it runs well under Tiger. To dictate, I have to reboot into Tiger each time, and because I'm required to use FileVault for security reasons, I can't access most of my programs and data in the Leopard partition, so this is a royal pain.
I've managed to do it on a MacBook Pro - sort of - running 10.4.10 (using Tiger installer disks I bought from Apple for a late 2007 model MBP - it took some doing to get these, because mine came with Leopard and wasn't designed to run Tiger, but it runs perfectfully when installed on and booted from a separate partition) under VMware Fusion 2.0.1. However, audio doesn't work (interestingly, I can run ViaVoice anyway because I can connect to my Plantronics USB dictation headset directly) but performance varies unpredictably from very good to awful, and I'm only able to run it by resuming from a snapshot - i.e., I can't boot from a shutdown state.
Parallels may be faster than VMware and I think it supports audio on Leopard OS X Server, so I'd like to try that. As expected, when one tries to install a Mac OS other than OS X Server, though, it won't permit it. Doing so for me wouldn't violate copyright laws as I have a legal copy of Tiger purchased from Apple, and am running it on the same machine as I would if booted directly into Tiger.
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If it does I will be the first man to buy it.
I strongly recommend that anyone considering upgrading from 3 to 4 wait until they get this working. To make matters worse, I have to deal with these foreigners who speak lousy English, who can't hear (probably because they're crammed into a sweatshop), and they ask for all the same information I've just spent an hour giving them.
I HATE THEIR TECH SUPPORT.
If I had known I would never have wasted my money on this awful upgrade.
He directed me to put in the Windows disk, which I did, and then to configure Parallels to start Windows from the disk... did that. Ran Windows, it crashes, check the settings, and Parallels has reset itself to use an image file rather than the Windows disk. Nice.
Headed into HOUR 3.
I guess I was lucky because I downloaded the upgrade on http://www.novadevelopment.com/pu4/default.aspx , and had no problems installing it. By the way version 4 works way better than version 3, games and other apps run much faster.
Client and Server *are* identical in every aspect of the kernel and OS. The differences are in what comes in addition to server and removal of some things that conflict (like personal file sharing).
So is there a way to tweak Parallels to allow virtualization of Tiger under Leopard? I've been using ViaVoice for OS X and have trained it on thousands of words unique to my very specialized area of work. ViaVoice breaks under Leopard on my MacBook Pro, although it runs well under Tiger. To dictate, I have to reboot into Tiger each time, and because I'm required to use FileVault for security reasons, I can't access most of my programs and data in the Leopard partition, so this is a royal pain.
Following the thread at
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...81031054054546
I've managed to do it on a MacBook Pro - sort of - running 10.4.10 (using Tiger installer disks I bought from Apple for a late 2007 model MBP - it took some doing to get these, because mine came with Leopard and wasn't designed to run Tiger, but it runs perfectfully when installed on and booted from a separate partition) under VMware Fusion 2.0.1. However, audio doesn't work (interestingly, I can run ViaVoice anyway because I can connect to my Plantronics USB dictation headset directly) but performance varies unpredictably from very good to awful, and I'm only able to run it by resuming from a snapshot - i.e., I can't boot from a shutdown state.
Parallels may be faster than VMware and I think it supports audio on Leopard OS X Server, so I'd like to try that. As expected, when one tries to install a Mac OS other than OS X Server, though, it won't permit it. Doing so for me wouldn't violate copyright laws as I have a legal copy of Tiger purchased from Apple, and am running it on the same machine as I would if booted directly into Tiger.
Ideas anyone? Thanks.