Running Mountain Lion with-in Snow Leopard

Hi, I'm currently running snow leopard 10.6.8, and enjoy it vary well and don't want to upgrade to a new OS. However there are a few features/programs which only mountain lion can do/use. I would like to be able if possible to run a virtual ML OS from within snow leopard. I though Parallels could do so, however when I contacted their rep they said I couldn't. Does anyone know of another program to do this task?

Also I don't want to partition my hard drive.

If anyone know of a program to do this task, and share their experience working with it would be much appreciated

Game Man370 said:

Hi, I'm currently running snow leopard 10.6.8, and enjoy it vary well and don't want to upgrade to a new OS. However there are a few features/programs which only mountain lion can do/use.

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You could setup your Mac to be dual-booting. To do this you:

- Partition your HD into two partitions.
- Install Snow Leopard on one partition.
- Install Mountain Lion on the other partition.

You cannot have both OS version running simultaneously.

- Nick

p.s. Parallels is a program for running Windows on a Macintosh computer…while the computer is actually booted in the Mac OS.

pigoo3 said:

You could setup your Mac to be dual-booting. To do this you:

- Partition your HD into two partitions.
- Install Snow Leopard on one partition.
- Install Mountain Lion on the other partition.

You cannot have both OS version running simultaneously.

- Nick

p.s. Parallels is a program for running Windows on a Macintosh computer…while the computer is actually booted in the Mac OS.

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ThuyNga said:

The last time I looked, VirtualBox allows OS X installation within Snow Leopard.

Personally I would not mess with a virtual within a virtual simply because this is my only official copy of Snow Leopard installed. If it crashes, I will have to go out and buy

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Thanks for the quick replies and info
I guess Ill just leave it be for the time being, I just thought since windows could be run within mac then ML could as well.
Out of curiosity, why can't you run a Mac OS from within a Mac OS ?

ThuyNga said:

It is just that the processing gets slowed down too much. If you run it directly, then you get 90% of the processing power to your applications. If you run it within another Mac OS, you get maybe 40% (just a guess)!

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Thanks for the info

Game Man370 said:

Out of curiosity, why can't you run a Mac OS from within a Mac OS ?

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I was thinking side by side. You can only boot into one OS at a time. But running a 2nd OS within a "virtualization" program is different.

- Nick

pigoo3 said:

I was thinking side by side. You can only boot into one OS at a time. But running a 2nd OS within a "virtualization" program is different.

- Nick

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Ya that is what i was going for.

Maybe there is hope after all?

Game Man370 said:

Maybe there is hope after all?

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"ThuyNga" mentioned earlier that you can run the Mac OS within "VirtualBox". I have no experience with this…but maybe that's an option.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

- Nick

pigoo3 said:

"ThuyNga" mentioned earlier that you can run the Mac OS within "VirtualBox". I have no experience with this…but maybe that's an option.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

- Nick

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Ya ill check it out, thanks again.