Hi Cat_7,

Yeah, good point, no I didn't check the network connections before now. I set it to bridge and unfortunately network performance is useless for my purpose. I get around 80-110 MB/S when netbooting some Macs directly from the MacBook 2,1. But I can't do even sequential transfer over the ...

Update: I got it installed and Fusion even boots my old install Tiger Server install when I clone it using Carbon Copy Cloner.

However USB is super slow - like 2-3 mb/s. Will need to test and experiement with the USB settings and other things!

Thanks for all the help! Much appreciated

Hi @Cat_7,

Thank you! Did you see in my last message that I actually already got it installed and how?

Now I am trying to update to 10.4.11.

Will let you know how it goes so if anyone else needs this they can find a solution!

Hi again @Cat_7,

Thanks, this server DVD was actually the one I have tried on all my different installations. Inow tried exactly those specs in VMware Fusion 11.5 and then it shows:
Attempting to start up from:
+ EFI UMware Virtual SATA CDROM Drive (1.0) ... unsuccessful.
EFI UMware Virtual SATA ...

Hi, thanks for the answers:

@Cat_7 I run on Catalina 10.15.8. What exact machine settings do you use in VMware? I think I have tried everything. If I have those exact settings I can retry with your fixes (which starting machine template and which CPU details and SATA or IDE for CD-ROM and disks ...

Hi all,

I'm new here and have been watching this forum for years learning from it but now I am joining :-)

I am posting because I want to migrate my 10.4.11 macOS Tiger server setup from my old Macbook 2.1 that needs to retire to a virtual machine in preferably Parallels 14, or alternatively ...