[X4U] Snow Leopard: how much room?

[John French]

>>... Are there any authoritative estimates of how large I should 
>>make [a] Snow Leopard partition? ....

Neil Laubenthal replied:

>I just made a Parallels virtual machine for Snow Leopard. Yes, it is 
>technically against the EULA and yes it does require a small bit of 
>well documented on the Internet trickery to make it work and 
>properly look for software updates. I don't recommend violating the 
>EULA unless one is comfortable with it, but given that you are 
>allowed to virtualized Lion server and non-server as well as server 
>only for earlier versions it's hard to believe they really care 
>about SL non-server.

My concern about using Parallels is that it's conceivable that Apple, 
in a fit of pique, might add something to a Mac OS X 10.8.x version 
that detects and cripples such a scheme. Or Apple may require 
Parallels to remove the capability altogether, just as they did with 
Fusion. Also, I'm not particularly excited about a technique that 
involves "a small bit of... trickery"; one false step and the result 
might be very unpleasant. :-)

>I made my virtual disk 10 GB and it only has the OS and those apps 
>that won't run on Lion.

Since my list of apps might not be the same as yours, do you have a 
feel for the size that the OS alone requires?

Wondrin',
john