The MacWorld , Mar 2012 issue, has an comprehensive article on how (legally) one can install Lion as a Virtual machine with Fusion V 4. THAT Lion MUST be your one and only owned copy of Lion . The article states a few limitations in operating Lion as a Fusion-supported virtual machine... but it did work fine. In this case, Lion was the Host system for VMWare V4 That same Lion then was installed as a VM .
What I want to do is to install MY OWN copy of Snow Leopard (OS 10.6.x) as a virtual machine. The host OS would be OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). The same restrictions of usage of the VM would probably repeat (as in the Macworld article), but I ONLY need a couple of SNL apps to use after I cut over to Lion as my Host system. This way when I infrequently need the SNL, I use the VMWare V4 VM of SNL.
Anyone tried this? What are the pitfalls, if any?
Why is Lion the ONLY OS X that can be virtualized under V4.1.1?
Thanks in advance,
Jim Babcock
My SYSTEM:
Apple: OS 10.6.8 V1.1/24" iMac/4GB/VMWare V 4.1.1 w/W2K,Win7x64