It used to be that if you tried to boot a Mac without a display plugged in, it would stop in the middle of the boot process. In the end, I gave up on this path.įor the longest time, you couldn’t actually run a Mac as a headless server. Worse, VM performance is surprisingly bad for a Mac running on top of a Mac. Added to the $75.00 for VMware Fusion, and all of a sudden you have a very expensive solution. You can virtualize Snow Leopard Server, but if you try to buy a used copy on eBay, it’s still almost $200.00. (Personally, I believe VMware should have made this check easy to disable, so that expert users could “take the licensing risk” while not offending Apple. I was hoping that VMware Fusion 4.0 would remove this limitation, since Apple now allows virtualization of Mac OS X 10.7, but apparently they are still enforcing the ban on virtualizing Snow Leopard. While you can hack some of the configuration files within the virtual image package to “trick” the machine into loading Mac OS X 10.6, it ends up resetting almost every time you quit the virtual machine. Unfortunately, I found that none of them were stable over time. There are quite a few blog posts and discussion boards on the web that explain how to hack VMware Fusion to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. (BTW If you read the comments on that first blog post, you’ll see I’m not alone.)įailure: Snow Leopard on VMware Fusion 4.0 I finally come up with one that works incredibly well for me, so I thought I’d share it here for the small number of people out there who can’t imagine life without Quicken for Mac.

A few weeks ago, I made the leap to Lion, and experimented with a number of different solutions on how to successfully run Quicken 2007. Unfortunately, that solution didn’t actually work for me. In July I wrote a blog post about a proposed solution for running Quicken 2007 with Mac OS X Lion (10.7).

Quicken 2007 updates for mac