> On 2020-12-06-S, at 21:26, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2020, at 20:21, Michael wrote: > >> Ok, lets say I wanted to use a 2014 laptop running 10.9.5 as the host -- >> which VM would let me run a 10.12 and a 10.14 guest? >> >> Bonus points if it can run a 10.7 (lion) guest. > > Well your options are VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop and VirtualBox. Since > the last of those is free, maybe start there. If it doesn't work, try one of > the other two. If the host OS is to be 10.9, which is old, then you may need > an older version of any of these. > >> Triple bonus if it can run either a PPC guest, or a 10.6 running rosetta :-) >> (That's *NOT* a joke, some software never updated.) > > *Virtualization* software won't run a PowerPC guest on an Intel host. > *Emulation* software would.
Yeah, you’d definitely need a much older version of any of those products. VirtualBox might be good place to start. That said, QEMU (or a derivative) could also be a option… particularly if you need to emulate a PowerPC guest.
