Can I run Snow Leopard in Lion w/ Parallels?

[Singin Hobo]

I've got Parallels 6 and I was hoping to run a VM Snow Leopard through Lion but when I try to install it it says something about not being able to install a Snow Leopard server, which I don't want to do.

I don't want to run it on a partition as I would like to run them both at the same time (I need some apps in Lion and a printer of mine has no driver for Lion).

Any way to work this?

 

[Sc00tr]

no you can only run Snow Lep Server inside the VM.
However you can run Lion inside a VM. You will need to upgrade to the latest version of Parallels.

 

[Singin Hobo]

Okay, hows about this one:

Can I connect to my Windows 7 VM in Parallels as a network? ie: using a printer attached through Windows from Lion?

 

[dukebound85]

no you can only run Snow Lep Server inside the VM.
However you can run Lion inside a VM. You will need to upgrade to the latest version of Parallels.

So if you have a pc lying around and have a virtualization software, you can run lion on your pc virtualized?

 

[Singin Hobo]

No, according to the user agreement you can only run OSX on Mac hardware... so you could run Lion inside Lion... I guess.

 

[mrgraff]

Okay, hows about this one:

Can I connect to my Windows 7 VM in Parallels as a network? ie: using a printer attached through Windows from Lion?

I don't see why not. I'm doing the exact opposite: my Windows XP VM is able to use the printer attached through Lion. You should be able to install your printer in Windows 7 and share it on your network, and then find it Lion.

 

[jbg232]

Licensing issues aside, apprently the just updated VM Ware Fusion 4.1 allows you to run leopard or snow leopard virtualized (non-server editions).

 

[maflynn]

Licensing issues aside, apprently the just updated VM Ware Fusion 4.1 allows you to run leopard or snow leopard virtualized (non-server editions).

Yes, but even before that, there was a simple hack to allow vmware to load SL. Anyways when I had done that on computer I found performance to be rather poor. The drivers are just not there to really get a decent performance, but its still nice for testing purposes or if you have some rosetta apps