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Q: can snow leopard server work in mac book pro

Can snow leopard server work in mac book pro

Posted on May 6, 2014 7:14 AM

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  • by Brian Nesse,

    Brian Nesse Brian Nesse May 6, 2014 7:59 AM in response to gcintl
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    May 6, 2014 7:59 AM in response to gcintl

    Yes. Assuming the MacBook Pro is capable of having Snow Leopard installed on it.

  • by MrHoffman,

    MrHoffman MrHoffman May 6, 2014 9:43 AM in response to gcintl
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    May 6, 2014 9:43 AM in response to gcintl

    I would generally not recommend booting OS X Server natively on an OS X MacBook Pro system or any other portable (because server really wants a static IP for various of its services, and portables tend to wander networks), but it is possible to boot Snow Leopard Server OS X Server 10.6 for certain MacBook Pro systems. 

     

    If your MacBook Pro is newer than that list, then 10.6 will not boot on your MacBook Pro directly, but it's possible to install a third-party virtual machine software package onto OS X, and to then load and boot OS X Server 10.6 as a guest within the virtual machine — I'd suspect this is where you're headed here, too.  I'd further guess that you've some old PPC PowerPC software around that requires Rosetta for its operations, as OS X Server 10.6 is one of the ways recommended for accessing that old software.

     

    There are commercial and free virtual machines available for various versions of OS X.