Lion | Parallels Desktop | Snow Leopard | FreeHand MX

[AppleFarmer]

I had to get a newer MacBook Pro. It can only run Lion, but I still need to be able to run FreeHand MX. So I Installed 10.6 Server into Parallels Desktop and I am now running FreeHand within the virtual machine. Everything works OK, including printing PostScript-files.

This is not a perfect solution, but it works for me.

[FFH Thü]

Thank you for the information. Good to know this is working well.

[AppleFarmer]

I installed PhotoShop under the virtual Snow Leopard installation, so that I am able to edit my links from FreeHand. The performance is very good, no lag. I have 16 Gb of RAM in my MacBook Pro and I've given the virtual machine 4 Gb.

I'm going to test the same setup under Mountain Lion later this week.

[HMU-56]

Hi AppleFarmer,

That's GREAT news. I was just thinking of buying a new Mac Book Pro with retina display. The fact that's holding me back, was that i won't be able to use a.o. FreeHand MX anymore. I use FH for Mac under Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro (special SL dedicated disk) and FH for Windows on a XP machine. Would, except Parallel's Desktop, VMware Fusion also do the job as good? What do you think? (I have VMware Fusion 3, probably needs an update for Mountain Lion). Regards, Hans

[AppleFarmer]

Parallels Desktop 6 will not run on Mountain Lion, so I need to upgrade to version 7. I'll report back after that.

I have VMware Fusion 4.1.3 running under Mountain Lions (Windows installed, not Snow Leopard). But you should be able to get Snow Leopard installed on VMware.

[Mig]

FYI VMWare 4.1.0 will let you virtualize Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. That´s something really cool.
Apparently Apple didn´t like that; Not strangely, VMWARE 4.1.3 is restricted to Server versions. You got a good reason to go back to 4.1.0 if you want to virtualize 10.5 or 10.6 .
Cheers!

[AppleFarmer]

10.8 Mountain Lion + Parallels Desktop 7 + Snow Leopard Server and FreeHand MX is working just fine.