Running OSX within OSX - A Virtual Machine question...

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Hello,
I am sorry if this has been covered already, I didn't see anything related when I searched (poorly perhaps). Anyways, what I would like to do is run Leopard in a virtual machine on my company's laptop that currently has Tiger installed on it. The company will be updating the laptop's OS to Leopard later this year but I would like to be able to run my "own" applications on the laptop without installing applications to the actual computer. I do have admin rights to the machine to do this installation but I am curious as to which application best supports this, Parallels or otherwise. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? Is it possible? Thanks for any input you can provide!

Cheers!
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Hello,
I am sorry if this has been covered already, I didn't see anything related when I searched (poorly perhaps). Anyways, what I would like to do is run Leopard in a virtual machine on my company's laptop that currently has Tiger installed on it. The company will be updating the laptop's OS to Leopard later this year but I would like to be able to run my "own" applications on the laptop without installing applications to the actual computer. I do have admin rights to the machine to do this installation but I am curious as to which application best supports this, Parallels or otherwise. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? Is it possible? Thanks for any input you can provide!

Cheers!
~Dubhead

I'm unaware of a virtualization solution for OS X but you could just install and run it from an external hard disk.

HTH
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You can always try a trial of VMWare Fusion and see if it will let you install Leopard inside it.
 
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OSX Server allows virtualization...

this may be a bit of older news but it does appear that Apple officially allows virtualization of OSX Server within VMWare's Fusion software:

VMWare Blog Post

I have not installed VMWare Fusion yet, but it might be curious to see if I could just use Leopard. It doesn't sound like Apple licensing is currently allowing this.
 
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You can always try a trial of VMWare Fusion and see if it will let you install Leopard inside it.

So far as I know (ie, I opened up Fusion and had a look), it won't let you install another mac os.

I'd go with the external, and just boot from that.
 

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