On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2008, at 02:28, Gregory Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> macdev wrote: >> >>> I was wondering what the common ways are to test my application on >>> OSX 10.* >>> versions. Besides having a separate machine each having a different >>> version, >>> is there any other way you guys are using to test your apps? >>> Coming from >>> windows development, there you can test your apps using VMware on a >>> different flavor of windows. >>> >>> How is this achieved on the Mac? >> >> Keeping in mind that there *are* reasons to test on various hardware >> configurations as well, if you're concerned about just testing >> various OS versions I've found that it's sufficient to keep around a >> FireWire HD with a different OS version on each partition and just >> boot from the one I want to test. > > It seems that newer hardware refuses to boot from older OS versions. > E.g. my white MacBook (2 weeks old) absolutely refuses to boot from Tiger.
The general rule of thumb is that each machine requires whatever the latest OS was at the time that it came out, though, there are exceptions to every rule. -- Clark S. Cox III [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
