#Mac os x 10.4 iso image vmware install#
Once the install is complete (no reboot needed), exit the installer.
#Mac os x 10.4 iso image vmware mac os x#
In the Mac OS X installer, select the mounted VM disk as the target, and then install Tiger as usual: now, as you install from within your specific machine, the installer won't complain, even if you select a virtual disk image as the target disk (and not, for example, your internal HD).Insert your Tiger/Intel DVD and navigate to /System » Installation » Packages » OSInstall.mpkg, then double-click it to open the Mac OS X installer.Control-click on the package, then choose More » Mount Virtual Disk from the pop-up menu, thus mounting the pre-formatted (with HFS+ Journaled) VM disk on the Desktop. Navigate to the VM package's position (by default located in ~/Documents » Virtual Machines, unless you have changed it).Create a new Mac OS X 10.5 Server 64-bit (the default setting) virtual Machine (VM) in VMware Fusion don't start it, then quit Fusion.Now, assuming you have a machine-specific Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger DVD for Intel, and want to try to run this operating system as a virtual machine through VMware Fusion 2.x, on the same computer upgraded to Leopard? Well, let's try to do this in an as simple way as possibile, from within Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard. So, Apple, it would really be a great thing to permit virtualization of *all* your Intel-compatible OSes, both server and client, starting from Tiger and upwards. So, why would one hypothetically want to do all this? Well, it could be very good for running legacy, up-to-Tiger-only programs (see, for example, Photoshop 7, which won't run on Leopard etc.) and/or for testing software in a Tiger/Intel environment, without being forced to have a partition dedicated to Tiger.
So, let's take it only as an - I hope interesting - exercise to understand things a little better. First of all, this hint (which is based on some very good previous hints appearing here) is only of academic interest, almost as a proof of concept, for now (at least until Apple will change their licensing terms).