
Purchase/install/update your preferred virtualisation software (see list above).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.


Mac computer for hosting your preferred guest OS preferably with a working Recovery Partition.Preparation NOTE: You will need the following:

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. macOS 12 - does not support 32-bit applications, new security/update model.macOS 11 - does not support 32-bit applications, new security/update model.macOS 10.15 - buggy, slow + the new Apple File System (APFS), does not support 32-bit applications.macOS 10.14 - probably a good one to run (as it's the last macOS version able to run 32-bit applications) but we haven't fully tested running this as a virtualised OS yet.macOS 10.13 - buggy, slow + the new Apple File System (APFS).macOS 10.12 - free, supports most internet/iCloud based services.OS X 10.11 - free, supports most internet/iCloud based services but has secure certificate issues.OS X 10.10 - was slow when installed on a hard disk, does not support latest Apple internet/iCloud based services.OS X 10.9 - was very kludgy and slow when installed on a hard disk.OS X 10.8 - now free, it runs very efficiently in a virtual machine and there are few internet/iCloud based services clogging it up.

