Create Image of Mac Host

[stooley73]

I'm running Fusion 2 on Mac Snow Leopard. How do I use Fusion to take an image of my Snow Leopard host?

[asatoran · Accepted solution]

Per Apple's EULA, only Leopard and Snow Leopard server can be run in a virtual machine. "Desktop" OSX is not allowed to be run as a virtual machine. With that, VMWare only supports running OSX 10.5 Server and later as a VM. So the first issue is whether you're running OSX server or not.

Additionally, Fusion by itself does not have any feature set or mechanism to run or convert the host OSX as a virtual machine. All Fusion has is the ability to use an existing Boot Camp physical partition as a virtual machine. But not the existing OSX partition. I suppose if you had mutliple bootable OSX partitions on one host, then perhaps you could have Fusion run one of those partitions as a virtual machine. (I haven't seen anyone post that they've done that yet.)

[dp_fusion]

You will need a copy of Mac Snow Leopard Server edition. The desktop version is not legal to virtualize.

Edit: Hmm - stale cache - asatoran's already answered.

[Tyomni]

But You can always go for hackintosh, hm, I didn't write this, just my cat set on the keyboard...