Can you create a bootable Lion Server image?

[Red Storm]

I have already purchased Lion Server from the app store, it downloaded a 33MB file, but I am trying to download the installer packages to create a boost disk with. Any idea how to do this?

 

[Adramalech]

From what it looks like, you will have to create the external bootable disk using the Lion installer and then boot up Lion and install the Server upgrade. Let me know if you need any more help with that. 🙂

 

[Kaido]

What is the goal here?

Lion & Lion Server both use the same underlying OS. Lion Server is simply a $50 app add-on to Lion (a package). Thus, the package is not bootable because it is not an operating system - it is just an application. If you want to make a bootable Lion Installer DVD or USB stick, you can use Lion DiskMaker:

http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/

Alternatively, you can install Lion to a USB stick (acting as a hard drive), THEN install the Lion Server package, and then you have a bootable image (albeit slow).

 

[Red Storm]

Thanks guys. The end goal was to create a bootable disk for running a virtualized Lion Server with either VMWare or VirtualBox for testing purposes. I figured out the server being an add-on part and managed to download the Lion installer, now I just need to see if it's possible to create a bootable install disc that can be used with either VM solution.

 

[Kaido]

Thanks guys. The end goal was to create a bootable disk for running a virtualized Lion Server with either VMWare or VirtualBox for testing purposes. I figured out the server being an add-on part and managed to download the Lion installer, now I just need to see if it's possible to create a bootable install disc that can be used with either VM solution.

Apple recently changed their licensing to allow OSX virtualization on Apple hardware. Parallels 7 includes support for Lion as a guest OS:

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

VMware 4.0 (coming out soon) should also include Lion support as a guest OS. You can also run OSX on non-Apple hardware (against TOS, of course) using EmpireEFI or something similar within VMware Workstation or Player.

 

[Red Storm]

Apple recently changed their licensing to allow OSX virtualization on Apple hardware. Parallels 7 includes support for Lion as a guest OS:

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

VMware 4.0 (coming out soon) should also include Lion support as a guest OS. You can also run OSX on non-Apple hardware (against TOS, of course) using EmpireEFI or something similar within VMware Workstation or Player.

Ah, well the goal is for the Lion VM to be the only Mac system involved (trying to run this on a Windows Server box that is running VMware). I do understand it's probably against the TOS, but this is more of an experiment than anything else really. I will look into EmpireEFI, thanks.

 

[ViRGE]

Ah, well the goal is for the Lion VM to be the only Mac system involved (trying to run this on a Windows Server box that is running VMware). I do understand it's probably against the TOS, but this is more of an experiment than anything else really. I will look into EmpireEFI, thanks.

If you're running VMWare it's easier to just patch VMWare to accept a Mac OS X guest. It's capable, they just don't enable it to stay on Apple's good side.

As for the subject at hand, Kaido has already outlined your options. You can't create a true Lion Server installation disc since Lion Server is an add-on application suite for Lion. So you either need to create a virtual machine image with Lion Server already installed, or install the Lion Server package after installing Lion.

 

[Kaido]

If you're running VMWare it's easier to just patch VMWare to accept a Mac OS X guess. It's capable, they just don't enable it to stay on Apple's good side.

lol that's ridiculous, thanks for the link! Now that my power is back on after Irene, it's playin' time :awe: