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Hardware > Network > Source > choose 'Ethernet' - the virtual environment will use your physical Mac's Ethernet network configuration.

Hardware > Video > Video memory - the more memory assigned the higher the resolution available for the virtual environment.

in your Documents > '108SharedFolder' (as per the preparation section above)

Options > Sharing - for best security set 'Share Folders' to 'None', untick 'Share iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive' + 'Map Mac volumes to virtual machine' and click 'Custom Folders…' to add your dedicated shared folder e.g.

Choose your required custom settings - they can be changed later.

Tick the 'Customize settings before installation' option.

Click Continue to begin installing OS X.

Otherwise click on 'Choose Manually', click 'Image File' and locate the OS X 10.8 installer/drag it to the window.

If Parallels automatically finds the OS X 10.8 installer you put on your Desktop/local hard disk earlier (as per the preparation section above) click 'Continue'.

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Click on 'Install Windows or another OS from a DVD or image file' and click Continue.Instructions for installing OS X 10.8 with: in your Documents folder create a folder titled '108SharedFolder' Create a dedicated folder to share files/documents with the virtual environment e.g.use a web browser to go to and see if you can view a web page Make sure your actual, physical Mac has a working internet connection e.g.

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Make sure you have plenty of free hard disk space (a basic 10.8.5 install is about ~24GB before your own applications and you'll need at least twice that if you need to clone it for multiple installations), so we recommend at least 75GB of free space (100GB+ if you're looking to virtualise and use Adobe Creative Suite).

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On later versions of macOS your preferred virtualisation software will require specifically allowing their System Extension(s) to run via System Preferences > Security & Privacy, plus they may require to be granted access to Accessibility.Purchase/install/update your preferred virtualisation software.If you haven't already, make a backup/archive of the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installer e.g.

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You may still be able to buy a download redemption code for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion via the online Apple Store:.

If you purchased OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion you might be able to re-download the installer - go to Macintosh HD > Applications > App Store > Purchased tab at the top > login if necessary > check your purchase history list to download Mountain Lion.

If you already have this installer archived/backed up you are good to go.

Obtain the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installer and copy it to your local Desktop/hard disk:.

Obtain your preferred virtualisation software (see list above).

Preparation NOTE: You will need a Mac and the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installer. NOTE: This document was written using a Mac mini (2014 model) with macOS 10.14 Mojave running in 64-bit only test mode and using Parallels Desktop 14.1.2, VMWare Fusion 11.0.2 and VirtualBox 6.0.4.

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If you would like to transfer an existing Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 to a virtual machine, or take a Mac OS X 10.6 bootable storage device/clone/disk image and convert it into a virtual machine please see this article instead. This article deals with setting up/installing a virtual machine with Mac OS X 10.6 clean/from scratch. MacStrategy presents this special guide to virtualising Mac OS X / OS X / macOS. The ability to virtualise OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is important and very useful as it is an easy way to run 32-bit applications that do not run on macOS 10.15 or later. You now have to activate Adobe Creative Suite using the 'offline activation' method. During 2021 Adobe killed off support for older versions of TLS (v1/v2) to connect to their

Adobe's Creative Suite activation software only uses older Transport Layer Security connection methods.

This affects Apple's operating system, Safari, and most browsers except Firefox.

As of September 2021 OS X 10.11 and earlier no longer supports the ISRG Root X1 root certificate.

This is the result of two separate problems: It cannot 'connect' to their activation servers. Safari reports: Safari can't open the page 'xxx' because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server 'xxx'. Instructions for installing, setting up and virtualising OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion WARNING!ġ9th November 2021 update: An issue that started in the summer of 2021 (around June) was that Apple's Safari and Adobe's activation software would no longer securely connect to servers in virtual Virtualising OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Article ID = 76Īrticle Title = Virtualising OS X 10.8 Mountain LionĪrticle Last Updated = 19th November 2021

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