PeterBreis0807 wrote:
When something doesn't work you will be able to eliminate the vagaries of buggy Snow Leopard Server, Parallels, any unnecessary partitioning or inadequate RAM & Virtual Memory because you threw a good chunk of it all away on setting up the above.
Let us review these claims in more detail:
"buggy Snow Leopard Server" - REALLY?!? No reports of any substantial bugs and much published acclaim for the stability of Snow Leopard and its Server version. While Security Updates are no longer available, no internet access is needed by Appleworks, so no cause for concern there.
"buggy... Parallels" - REALLY?!? Not what the Parallels user community reports, especially in the use of Snow Leopard Server within Parallels. Plus Snow Leopard Server can be virtualized in other virtualization programs than Parallels, at the users choice.
"any unnecessary partitioning" - EXACTLY!!! No partitioning is needed when using Snow Leopard Server in Parallels
"inadequate RAM & Virtual Memory" - if the user has "inadequate RAM" it will only cause a slowdown of the operation of his Mac ONLY while Parallels is running. Once Parallels is quit, it utilizes no virtual memory and, if it existed, there will be no continuation of a slowdown. Of course, a user with inadequate RAM should always consider upgrading the amount of RAM in his Mac for optimum performance on all counts!
"because you threw a good chunk of it al away on setting up the above" - FALSE: Installation of Snow Leopard Server in Parallels creates a "pvm" file in the users' Documents folder. Other than the amount of space taken up by this file, NO other resources are used when Parallels is quit.
So, "when something doesn't work, you can easily eliminate Snow Leopard Server and Parallels as a source of the problem, by shutting down Snow Leopard Server and quitting Parallels and then continue to trace the source of the problem.
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
All of the above may interact in unpredictable ways. If you are having problems getting your work done now, wait until you are doing it underwater, on your head, and with one hand tied behind your back.
Just NOT true: you obviously have no experience in using Snow Leopard Server in virtualization, and do the OP a disservice to suggest problems that just do not exist!
The fact of the matter is that on today's modern Macs, PowerPC applications run faster than they did on the fastest PowerPC Macs that they were originally written for.