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Ask SoylentNews: How did Your Upgrade to macOS High Sierra Go?

posted by martyb on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the uphill,-both-ways? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The latest version of Apple's macOS operating system, macOS High Sierra, has been released. If you have upgraded your system already, how did the upgrade go? Did you encounter any problems? If you have not yet updated, why have you chosen not to?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by damnbunni on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:21PM (2 children)

    by damnbunni (704) on Thursday September 28 2017, @02:21PM (#574351) Journal

    Because I never got it to work properly in VirtualBox, and VMWare and Parallels refuse to allow Snow Leopard to run because only the server version is licensed for VM client use.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @03:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @03:33PM (#574393)

    https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/138887-setting-up-apple-mac-os-x-10-12-on-esxi-6-0-host-as-a-vm [spiceworks.com]

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by fyngyrz on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:50PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:50PM (#574480) Journal

    VMWare and Parallels refuse to allow Snow Leopard to run because only the server version is licensed for VM client use.

    FYI: I run the server version of Snow Leopard in a VMWARE VM on a 12/24 core 2009 mac pro otherwise running 10.12.6. It's a pretty good solution – it's great to have both OSs up and running and talking to one another through the filesystem and network – except for one thing - the sound doesn't work, which can be a real problem. This is officially acknowledged by VMWARE in the form of a "sound is unsupported" remark for 10.6.8 server installs.

    You can't even stick a USB sound device on it to get around it. Just doesn't work. VMWARE has been unresponsive on the matter, which is not a huge surprise, although it certainly is disappointing to see them fail to support such basic system capabilities.

    If the sound issues don't put you off, you can legally and easily buy the server version from Apple for about $20 or so. Just call 'em, explain that you need to run 10.6.8 in a VM because [reasons], and they'll ship you a new-in-the-box copy out of a warehouse somewhere. They were very helpful to me just a few months ago when I set this up, and VMWARE did indeed recognize the server install properly and sets the up the VM without complaint.