I don't mind downloading from Apple, I just don't want to do the whole download from the App Store, extract from the installer, etc, etc, process. I just want a semi-automated way to do it. The sucatalogs are getting me where I need to go.
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:16 PM Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 2020, at 15:54, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 22:37, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > >>> On 2020-12-06-S, at 16:16, Mark Anderson wrote: > >>> > >>> Is there a good way to get 10.6 - 10.16 installed in Parallels — I > really don't want to download all of them from the app store, if that's > even possible. > >>> > >>> —Mark > >> > >> In my case, I’ve kept an archive of old MacOS installers, combo > updates, etc, so I used those. > > > > I'm currently using VMWare (and I don't mind switching to Parallels in > > case they have this covered in a better way), but the question is > > similar. > > > > I tried to install a new VM with Big Sur, but: > > - the VM version I have on my box doesn't let me select any newer > > macOS version than what I have installed (to some extent this is > > understandable: they couldn't have known all the caveats of Big Sur > > years back) > > - the latest VMware Fusion 12 is no longer compatible with my OS (ok, > > I would somehow accept that, at some point I do need to upgrade) > > - but even if I upgrade to, say, 10.15 or 11 now, VMware Fusion 12 no > > longer supports 10.6, for example, which is the single one that I > > would *really* like to keep > > > > I know that several developers here have the full collection of VMs > > dating back to 10.5 or so. Even after solving the problem of finding a > > suitable image (which Apple doesn't really make easy even if you just > > want to revert to something that you already had on that same machine) > > ... what's the best way to keep a variety of VMs working? > > As you know the 2009 Xserves I use to run the MacPorts Buildbot system run > VMware ESXi 6.0.0 and are running VMs from Snow Leopard through Big Sur. > Leopard works too and Tiger supposedly works with an installer patch from > Landon. You probably don't want VMware ESXi but I would guess a > contemporaneous version of VMware Fusion would have similar capabilities. > VMware ESXi 6.0.0 doesn't know about newer macOS versions but that doesn't > seem to be a problem. The Big Sur VM, for example, is configured as "Mac OS > X 10.8 64-bit" but works fine. Booting from APFS requires giving VMware a > custom EFI, following instructions I found online. > >
