Question about VMware/Parallels and Rosetta

[cjflury]

So I have had a rather insane (to me anyway) idea, but hear me out...

I just purchased Call Of Duty 4 from the App Store and like many users have become frustrated that you need to update the "punk buster" software it uses for multi-player manually. The sad part is I'm on Lion and the updater is PPC only

The updater requires you to locate the install location for COD4 in order to patch it. Would it be possible to run Parallels/VMware with Snow Leopard (I have my original install discs) and have it edit a file like that in Lion? I remember using it to emulate Windows and I had the option to share folder permissions, curious to if it would be the same. I'm asking because I don't want to piss away a ton of time with this if somebody knows full on it will not work. Thanks in advance!


-Chris

 

[sjinsjca]

No. In fact: you better hope a virtual machine can't touch anything on its host.

Edit: A little googling suggests https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2721426?start=0&tstart=0 has a cure for you. Looks promising. The publisher really ought to wrench themselves into the 21st century, though-- Apple went Intel long, long ago.

 

[ArchiMark]

That should work....

I googled "ppc apps on lion" and found this approach mentioned on several sites.

One suggestion mentioned about trying to install Rosetta from a SL disk into your Lion OS install, does not work...

So, check out some of the sites by searching as noted above....