Running Parallels Desktop under Snow Leopard Server?

I'm considering buying a mac mini server to replace my old windows server. This would require running some windows-based server applications in a virtual machine.
Does anyone have experiences running Parallels Desktop under Mac OS X server? Parallels support says: it's not supported - use Parallels Server instead. Priced at 1248 USD, the latter is definitely not in my spending budget.

I've done this without any problems. Originally I did it because my Mac mini was the only Intel box I had available, and even accessing Parallels 3 via a Mac remote desktop on my PowerMac was speedier and more responsive than running Virtual PC directly on the PowerMac.
So, yes, it certainly runs and I had no problems. Whether newer versions, e.g. today's release of Parallels 5 will also run, I can't answer. I don't see why not. Download the free trial and see how you get on.
Me: I bought a Parallels 4 upgrade this week cos Parallels 3 won't run under Snow Leopard. <grrr>. Onl;y to discover that a new version is released today. <grrr>. I am very relieved to learn that Parallels will give me a free upgrade to Parallels 5. Good on them -- well done Parallels.

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Remote Desktop and Snow Leopard Server

What is the best way to use Remote Desktop with Snow Leopard Server?
I purchased a mac mini with snow leopard server and Remote desktop so I can easily manage my 11 computers, install and upgrade software etc. etc.
The mac mini server will basically be nothing but a server.
I will use as my main computer a mac pro. Do I need to install Remote Desktop on the server and on my mac pro? What is the best way to deploy the services of Remote desktop and mac os x server?

You install Apple Remote Desktop on the machine you want to control from. In this case, install on your Mac Pro. All you have to do on the clients (controlled Macs) is enable remote management in the System Preferences under Sharing. Just make sure that all your controlled Macs are up to date on their ARD version (v3.3.2) which can be taken care of from Software Update.

Upgrade From Snow Leopard Desktop to Snow Leopard Server

I just installed Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro and it's running great! I upgraded it from 10.5 and it worked just fine for me. I was looking at the Snow Leopard Server and all the features it offers for the other Macs on my home network. My question is this: Can I install Snow Leopard Server on my Mac Pro without having to do a clean install? I have everything set up perfectly and I really don't want to have to reconfigure everything.
My other question is, besides the server software, is there any difference between the server and desktop versions? More specifically, am I still going to be able to use my audio creation/editing software and play the few games I have? Does the server strip out any functionality or is it exactly the same thing as the desktop version, but with added server tools?
Thanks in advance for your input!

1. No, you cannot upgrade from Client to Server. You will need to erase and install.
2. Generally, you can do the same things. It isn't exactly the same, even ignoring the server tools. Are there some things that won't work? Maybe. Namely because developers don't typically code with MOSXS in mind.
My question to you is this: What do you want from MOSXS that you cannot do with the Mac OS Client? And are you set on using it on your Mac Pro?
I ask because:
1. Client does most of the thing people want to do that are "server" like.
2. It isn't a good idea to mix server and production environments. OS X Server is typically easy to setup for basic operation, however, there will be issues and you will have to dig a little to get things working. Which means you will stopping and starting services, issuing terminal commands, modifying plists and .confs and rebooting. Sometimes it goes so wrong that you have to reinstall.
This is why if you are serious about a server, you should really consider a separate machine. The Mac Mini is a great option for a light duty server.
Also, carefully consider your needs. Can the things you want to do be accomplished with OS X Client and maybe a few web services. Not trying to sway you either way, but it isn't always as simple as "Click the Start button and the service is working."

Small problem: how using "Remote Desktop" on Snow Leopard Server

Hello,
How can I login to the Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server from 2 different Macs ?
Before I bought my Mac Mini Server in July, I asked the Apple Support if Snow Leopard Server has the equivalent of the Windows Remote Desktop functionality. He told me that it is possible. He did not tell me how, but I believed him.
I cannot find it in the documentation. Only 1 person can use screensharing. But I need more than 1 person working on the Mac OS X Server.
I moved our Photo library to the Mac OS X Server. With filesharing it takes 5 minutes to start iPhoto on our client iMac ( 1Gbps network). That is unworkable. So, from more iMacs users have to login to the server and start iPhoto on the server.
Thanks for the solution.
Hubert Anemaat

As per Jason's reply, there are two Terminal Server products available for Mac OS X. I have been testing both, both work in the same sort of way and will allow multiple simultaneous users to connect.
The typical approach is to (obviously) first to install one of these Terminal Server programs on your server. Then you (ideally) need another server hosting your Mac network home directories, and it needs to share the network home directories via NFS rather than AFP.
Note: Due to the way Mac OS X handles mounting AFP shares, you cannot have two users using the same share at the same time as the login defines the privileged's and the first logins privileged's would not be suitable for the second user, this is also why you cannot use "Fast User Switching" with two network login accounts when using AFP.
So, a client uses an RDC client (e.g. the free Microsoft Remote Desktop Client) to connect to the Terminal Server, this initiates a network login which access the users home directory via NFS.
RDC client (Mac or PC) ------> Mac Terminal Server <------ Mac network home directories
I have not tried iPhoto, but have tried various other applications, e.g. FileMaker, AppleScript, Microsoft Office 2004, etc. and the only problem I have hit so far is that Visual Basic in Office 2004 generates errors but Word and Excel otherwise work. Remember Office 2008 does not support Visual Basic (i.e. Macros).
I would actually expect iPhoto to work for multiple users as long as you use NFS. Using NFS for network home directories rather than AFP has actually 'fixed' a couple of badly written applications that had problems with AFP based network home directories, e.g. Adobe Acrobat 9.
I am using Mac OS X 10.6.4 Servers.

Can't run PowerPC apps under Snow Leopard. Why?

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion on my main hard drive. I also installed Snow Leopard on an external drive to run some older PowerPC apps I have that Lion and Mountain Lion don't support. Snow Leopard is supposed to run PowerPC applications just fine. So I installed those apps on the same drive as SL, but when I start up from that drive, the apps won't open? The system starts up just fine from the external drive, but when I try to open the apps, they just bounce in the dock at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds (like they're starting up). Then they go away and don't start up. No error warnings, no crashes. Nothing. I've restarted after the installs, checked to make sure folders weren't locked, etc. I can think of no reason why the apps won't run under SL on an external drive. Anyone have a guess?

Obviously you are unaware of the advice I give on this forum: You're preaching to the choir!
Try this patch for Freehand MX use in Snow Leopard:
http://helpx.adobe.com/freehand/kb/cant-launch-freehand-mx-mac.html
Let me know how this works out for you.
Here is how I run Freehand MX on my Lion Macs:
[click on image to enlarge]

Trying to install Snow Leopard Server into Parallels 9

Help! I have a 10.8 macbook, purchased Parallels 9 and Snow Leopard Server to create virtual environment for old ppc software (namely final cut pro 6), but the SLS installation halts saying not enough free RAM, but laptop meets min 2gb requirements... Does anyone know how to solve?
I get as far as b in step 6 here
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17285039&postcount=564
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Lulu

lulumalmgren wrote:
Help! I have a 10.8 macbook, purchased Parallels 9 and Snow Leopard Server to create virtual environment for old ppc software (namely final cut pro 6)...
Final Cut Pro 6, which is a component of Final Cut Studio 2, is not a PowerPC application; it was written for Intel Macs and should run fine in 10.8, Mt. Lion.
The problem is that there is a "bug" in the installer application that triggers the "PowerPC" dialog box when attempting to install FCP 6 into a Mac running Lion, Mt. Lion or Mavericks.
If the MacBook is old enough to run Snow Leopard, one solution is to partition your hard drive, or add an external one, and install Snow Leopard on it. Then use the "dual-boot" method to run either Snow Leopard or Mt. Lion on your MacBook. When running Snow Leopard, you can then install FCP 6 and run it.
In theory, once you have successfully installed FCP 6 into Snow Leopard, you could then upgrade this partition to Mt. Lion as well, and it should continue to run.
If your MacBook will not run Snow Leopard, review Jeremy Johnstone's method to use Terminal to install FCP 6 into Mt. Lion:
http://www.jeremyjohnstone.com/blog/2012-03-11-installing-final-cut-pro-studio-2 -0-on-mac-os-x-10-7-lion.html
...and as Bill Gates always says:
"You can never have too much money, or too much RAM!"

DNS Configured-Best Practice on Snow Leopard Server?

How many of you configure and run DNS on your Snow Leopard server as a best practice, even if that server is not the primary DNS server on the network, and you are not using Open Directory? Is configuring DNS a best practice if your server has a FQDN name? Does it run better?
I had an Apple engineer once tell me (this is back in the Tiger Server days) that the servers just run better when DNS is configured correctly, even if all you are doing is file sharing. Is there some truth to that?
I'd like to hear from you either way, whether you're an advocate for configuring DNS in such an environment, or if you're not.
Thanks.

Ok, local DNS services (unicast DNS) are typically straightforward to set up, very useful to have, and can be necessary for various modern network services, so I'm unsure why this is even particularly an open question. Which leads me to wonder what other factors might be under consideration here; of what I'm missing.
The Bonjour mDNS stuff is certainly very nice, too. But not everything around supports Bonjour, unfortunately.
As for being authoritative, the self-hosted out-of-the-box DNS server is authoritative for its own zone. That's how DNS works for this stuff.
And as for querying other DNS servers from that local DNS server (or, if you decide to reconfigure it and deploy and start using DNS services on your LAN), then that's how DNS servers work.
And yes, the caching of DNS responses both within the DNS clients and within the local DNS server is typical. This also means that there is need no references to ISP or other DNS servers on your LAN for frequent translations; no other caching servers and no other forwarding servers are required.

How to sync to Snow Leopard Server wiki group calendar

I'm running the Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server in our law office of 8 attorneys. We all use PC's with Outlook 2010. We don't have Microsoft Exchange Server, and we bought the Snow Leopard Server because of its advertisement that you could achieve the same results on it as on Exchange Server, but without the cost. SOUNDS LIKE-------OH WELL. We want to be able to see everyone's calendar events on 1 calendar if possible. I setup a Group Wiki for the group "Attorneys". When I open that wiki, I've set it to be accessible by all attorneys in the group. When the attorneys accounts were setup in Workgroup Manager, the Attorneys group was also setup, and they have access to the group. I've been trying to figure out how to do this, and the result that seems to come closest is the Wiki Attorneys Group Calendar. I have setup separate calendars in it for each attorney. And so you can see them all on one screen, or deselect and only see the calendars you want. Now the problem is how do I get the existing events off of Outlook 2010 on each machine and into the respective calendars in the Group Wiki, and also update that calendar as events change on each attorney's Outlook calendar? If there is some better way to do this I'm certainly open for suggestions. I don't believe that you can "sync" the iCal client calendar with the Wiki Calendar. If you can that might also be a solution. Thanks.

Not_So wrote:
I went to the AppStore and as I was running Snow Leopard Server it prompted me to purchase Lion Server which I didn't want.
Luckily, I wasn't asked to purchase the 'Server' when I upgraded from SLS to Mountain Lion via the AppStore. I think your particular problem was mentioned in some other posts where the upgrade path to Lion became an infinite loop (hmmm... ). But that's all in the past now. Glad it all worked.

Solution to playback distortion in iMovie HD 6 under Snow Leopard

For those having problems with distorted playback in iMovie HD 6 when running the program under Snow Leopard 10.6.3, please see my post today in this thread for a solution that has worked for me:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11608689#11608689
John

I took the plunge and updated to 10.6.3 not long after its release, as I prefer to be up to date with all my software. However, I did this with some trepidation. I needn't have worried (even though I had a backup), as everything seems to be working OK - other than that glitch with iMovie HD 6 playback, which is now resolved for me.
So, currently I have no issues with 10.6.3 - in fact my upgrade may not have been the culprit. I will be interested to hear what your experience is catspaw - if and when you move to the 10.6.3 version.
Thanks for your comment catspaw.
John

Kadmin can't change dsimport'ed passwords in Snow Leopard Server

Hello, World.
I am attempting to manage user accounts in Open Directory from a non-Mac system. After a good deal of investigation on Leopard Server, I wound up ssh'ing to our Open Directory server to create new accounts with 'dsimport', and then to manage later changes to the account through LDAP (for non-password data) and through Kerberos with kadmin, on the theory that kadmind was supposed to propagate the encrypted plain text passwords into Password Service for all of P.S.'s hashing needs.
This worked great in Leopard Server, but under Snow Leopard Server, any attempt to change a user's password via kadmin fails with
'change_password: KDC policy rejects request while changing password for <principal name>'
At the same time, the system log (/var/log/system.log) shows
Nov 2 17:53:46 od1 sandboxd[76028]: mkpassdb(76026) deny file-read-data /usr/sbin/mkpassdb
Nov 2 17:53:46 od1 sandboxd[76028]: mkpassdb(76027) deny process-exec /usr/bin/ldapsearch
However, if I create a principal directly with kadmin, kadmin does allow me to change the password for the principal I just created.
Use modprinc to remove attributes (REQUIRESPREAUTH DISALLOW_SVR) from the dsimport'ed principals doesn't affect anything in any positive manner, though the principals I create manually in kadmin do lack these attributes.
So, does anyone know what the story is, here? Is there no supported API that I can use from a Solaris/Linux server to fully manage accounts under Open Directory?

I have a Similar issue, Details below. the summary is that Using the Snow Leopard GUI interface I created 17 users with a generic low security Password. then transferred and converted some mail files to the server. Once the mail was working properly, I changed the passwords to a slightly more secure password, and set it so my users would have to change their password to a more secure password at log in.
Even after these password changes it is very easy to get other user's ticket information, if you know the original low Security Password with
kinit <other user name>
Details and demonstration.
oursvr:krb5kdc root# kpasswd someuser
Please enter the old password for [email protected]:
Please enter the new password for [email protected]:
Verifying, please re-enter the new password for
[email protected] again:
Server error
Unknown error code: 2802413321
KDC policy rejects request Unknown error code: 2802413326
Please enter the old password for [email protected]:
oursvr:krb5kdc root# kadmin.local
Authenticating as principal root/[email protected] with password.
kadmin.local: cpw [email protected]
Enter password for principal "[email protected]":
Re-enter password for principal "[email protected]":
ambiguous user name.
change_password: KDC policy rejects request while changing password for
"[email protected]".
kadmin.local: q
oursvr:krb5kdc root# kinit someuser/admin
Please enter the password for someuser/[email protected]:
oursvr:krb5kdc root# klist
Kerberos 5 ticket cache: 'API:Initial default ccache'
Default principal: someuser/[email protected]
Valid Starting Expires Service Principal
12/21/09 12:00:53 12/21/09 22:00:53
krbtgt/[email protected]
renew until 12/28/09 12:00:53
oursvr:krb5kdc root# kadmin
Authenticating as principal someuser/[email protected] with password.
Password for someuser/[email protected]:
kadmin: cpw someuser
Enter password for principal "someuser":
Re-enter password for principal "someuser":
change_password: Unknown error code: 2529638924 while changing password
for "[email protected]".
oursvr:krb5kdc root# kdestroy
oursvr:krb5kdc root# kinit otheruser
Please enter the password for [email protected]:
oursvr:krb5kdc root# klist
Kerberos 5 ticket cache: 'API:Initial default ccache'
Default principal: [email protected]
Valid Starting Expires Service Principal
12/21/09 12:07:55 12/21/09 22:07:50
krbtgt/[email protected]
renew until 12/28/09 12:07:55
CONFIGURATION
=============
Contents of /var/db/krb5kdc/kadm5.acl:
## This file autogenerated by KDCSetup ##
*/[email protected] * *
[email protected] * *
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
======================
(1) Using 'passwd' to change the password does not change the Kerberos
password.
(2) Using "dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -passwd Users/someuser" does not change
the Kerberos password.
(3)
(4) From /var/log/system.log:
Dec 21 11:57:01 oursvr edu.mit.Kerberos.kadmind[79131]: ambiguous user name.
Dec 21 11:57:01 oursvr sandboxd[82190]: mkpassdb(82189) deny file-read-data
/usr/sbin/mkpassdb
(5) From /var/log/krb5kdc/kadmin.log:
Dec 21 12:02:36 oursvr.sub.dom.tld kadmind[79131](Notice): Request:
kadm5chpassprincipal, [email protected], KDC policy rejects
request, client=someuser/[email protected],
service=kadmin/[email protected], addr=VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ
Dec 21 12:02:36 oursvr.sub.dom.tld kadmind[79131](Notice): Request:
kadm5chpassprincipal, [email protected], KDC policy rejects
request, client=someuser/[email protected],
service=kadmin/[email protected], addr=VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ
(6) From /var/log/krb5kdc/ldc.log:
Dec 21 11:56:51 oursvr.sub.dom.tld krb5kdc[62](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18
17 16 23 1 3 2}) VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ: NEEDED_PREAUTH:
[email protected] for kadmin/[email protected],
Additional pre-authentication required
Dec 21 11:56:51 oursvr.sub.dom.tld krb5kdc[62](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18
17 16 23 1 3 2}) VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ: NEEDED_PREAUTH:
[email protected] for kadmin/[email protected],
Additional pre-authentication required
Dec 21 11:56:51 oursvr.sub.dom.tld krb5kdc[62](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18
17 16 23 1 3 2}) VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ: ISSUE: authtime 1261414611, etypes
{rep=18 tkt=16 ses=18}, [email protected] for
kadmin/[email protected]
Dec 21 11:56:51 oursvr.sub.dom.tld krb5kdc[62](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18
17 16 23 1 3 2}) VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ: ISSUE: authtime 1261414611, etypes
{rep=18 tkt=16 ses=18}, [email protected] for
kadmin/[email protected]
(7) mkpassdb -dump 0x4b2bf32f30c3d4860000001e0000001e
slot 0030: 0x4b2bf32f30c3d4860000001e0000001e someuser 12/21/2009
12:28:17 PM
Last password change: 12/21/2009 11:00:36 AM
Last login: 12/21/2009 12:28:17 PM
Failed login count: 0
Disable reason: none
Hash-only bit: 0
Last Transaction ID: 2052
Transaction requires kerberos: 1
Record is dead: 0
Record is not to be replicated: 0
Access Features:
isDisabled=0 isAdminUser=0 newPasswordRequired=0 usingHistory=0
canModifyPasswordforSelf=1 usingExpirationDate=0 usingHardExpirationDate=0
requiresAlpha=0 requiresNumeric=0 expirationDateGMT=18446744073709551615
hardExpireDateGMT=18446744073709551615 maxMinutesUntilChangePassword=0
maxMinutesUntilDisabled=0 maxMinutesOfNonUse=0 maxFailedLoginAttempts=0
minChars=0 maxChars=0 passwordCannotBeName=0 requiresMixedCase=0
requiresSymbol=0 notGuessablePattern=0 isSessionKeyAgent=0
isComputerAccount=0 adminClass=0 adminNoChangePasswords=0
adminNoSetPolicies=0 adminNoCreate=0 adminNoDelete=0 adminNoClearState=0
adminNoPromoteAdmins=0
Group(s) for Administration: unrestricted
digest 0: method: *cmusaslsecretSMBNT
digest length: 16
digest: D6B093421FDF17380F0B695721F0F26A
digest 1: method: *cmusaslsecretSMBLM
digest length: 16
digest: 5C957C596B14237409A48A7AC23C7AB2
digest 2: method: *cmusaslsecretDIGEST
digest length: 16
digest: 8E9181A5F7697D7FB83BF2DA430CBB70
digest 3: method: *cmusaslsecretCRAM-M
digest length: 32
digest:
A08E4B9266A4B8676DEFA8584758F9013D29A479D81EE4E41D857D5A5CA4FA71
digest 4: method: KerberosRealmName
digest: OUR.KRB5.RLM
digest 5: method: KerberosPrincName
digest: someuser
digest 6: method: *cmusaslsecretPPS
digest length: 24
digest: A5AC9D1843D42ED4AF39EFB4AB91E536F733FB2580978860
digest 7: <empty>
digest 8: <empty>
digest 9: <empty>
slot checksum: 7DAA85870308B253D5A9294483A4B0EF
(8) dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -read Users/someuser | grep -A 2 authAuthority
dsAttrTypeNative:authAuthority:
;ApplePasswordServer;0x4b2bf32f30c3d4860000001e0000001e,1024 35
14773688809506996593092824880872774590718495204127440029375223520574013330136617 78685429961896612181406054801454823310071429734609519569726042321602422714273008 59946509691313082062885828226653436410277560435615063784052163315144051817774743 254036483144235604939879290290235050919364398951613699884041179183857
[email protected]:VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ
;Kerberosv5;0x4b2bf32f30c3d4860000001e0000001e;[email protected];OUR.KRB5.R LM;1024
35
14773688809506996593092824880872774590718495204127440029375223520574013330136617 78685429961896612181406054801454823310071429734609519569726042321602422714273008 59946509691313082062885828226653436410277560435615063784052163315144051817774743 254036483144235604939879290290235050919364398951613699884041179183857
[email protected]:VVV.WWW.YYY.ZZ

No Ethernet/Internet Connection on Parallels 7 Running Snow Leopard Server - Fix?

I have recently installed Parallels 7 on my 2013 iMac, and have both Snow Leopard Server and Windows 7 running great on the Parallels platform.
However, after installing some anti-virus software, "ClamXav" and "MacScan", I need to have the internet connected to my Paralells 7 so I can receive viral updates to both these programs. I am unable to get any ethernet/internet connection on my Paralells 7 running Snow Leopard Server.
I have tried to update the Paralells 7 Snow Leopard Server "network Info" (in SL systems preferences" ... as the same ethernet connection info that I have running my "network connection" on my main OS Mountain Lion, but still no ethernet connection in Paralells 7.
This is a screen grab of the locations where I believe I am able to update my "ethernet" info for Paralells 7 Snow Leopard:
Obviously, I've blurred out the current info in these two windows, for security purposes, but exactly what should be applied to these windows to get my "ethernet" connection in Paralells 7 up and running?
I would think entering the exact same "network info" as appears in my Mountain Lion "Systems Preferences - Network" window, would get me internet connected on Paralells 7 Snow Leopard? Evidently not ... what is needed for me to get this right?
Anyone have experience getting "ethernet/internet" connected on Snow Leopard Server, using Paralells 7?

MlchaelLAX
Since I have been directed to: "NOT waste everyones time on this discussion" the only thing more I am going to do after this post is click on: "Stop email notifications" and never return to this thread again!
Internet access through Ethernet in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels 8 on 2011 Mac Mini in Lion:"
I simply don't want to purchase and have to install Parallels 8 .... Parallels 7 should work fine on connecting to the Internet. Also, I was asking about the internet connection issue with the new 2013 iMac (running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 runiing Parallels 7), not a 2011 Mini Mac running Lion with Parallels 8.

Run Snow Leopard Server on Mountain Lion?

Greetings!
I wondered if some kind person could post at least a link to a walk-through guide as I keep getting Guru Meditation errors when trying to install Snow Leopard Server 10.6.3 on Mountain Lion 10.8.5.
I am currently running virtual box 4.3.14 and Mountain Lion 10.8.5 as my host OS.
Thank you in advance…
CK

There is not a link as Apple does not support doing this. However, some have succeeded by installing Parallels (you have to purchase it) and then installing Snow Leopard Server to run under Parallels. If your MacBook Pro came with Mountain Lion preinstalled, you cannot run a lower version of Mac OS X by itself. It has to be the server version and running under Parallels.
Look at the bottom of this page under More Like This for some threads that deal with the approach you need to follow.

Snow Leopard Server running extremely slow all of a sudden!!

Hi, I'm not a qualified server technician but am currently trying my best to run a server in a Secondary School! Please help, need to fix ASAP.
So basically we've got a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard server which has become incredibly slow in the past week. Nothing has changed in our department to trigger this. Here's everything I know so far...
- If I try to log on to the admin account when "Some Network Accounts Are Available", log on will take under a minute. If I try to log on to the admin account when the light goes green and "Network Accounts Are Available" log on will take forever and eventually just crash and which point I have to just force a shutdown and try again.
- When I can log on, some aspects of the computing seems fast and other aspects are really slow. For example, a few programs open as soon as I log on no problem, however a simple spotlight search or trying to open Sytem Preferences will crash the computer completely.
- Have tried booting in Safe Mode, and everything ran fast and how it's mean to but once restarting and booting normally the problems remained.
Sorry for the lack of knowledge!!
Thanks in advance.

Your comment indicates "crash the computer"? Do you mean that OS X Server itself fails, and you have to reboot? Or that the application crashes, and you have to restart it?
The following are some general approaches toward gathering some data:
Launch Console.app from Applications > Utilities and see if there are blocks of repeating errors.
Launch Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities and issue the following harmess, diagnostic command:
sudo changeip -checkhostname
After entering an administrative password and possibly seeing a one-time informational message about sudo, you should see some network configuration information and then an indication that no changes are required, or that there are DNS or network errors.
Boot from the Snow Leopard installation DVD and run a volume verification pass using Disk Utility, this from the Utilities menu of the installation disl.
FWIW...
If the applications or OS X Server are crashing, then you're generally heard toward either a reinstallation of the software, or a hardware repair, or quite possibly a combination of the two.
Forcing a hard shutdown can lead to corruptions, depending on exactly what's going on when the power drops out; that's probably best left as a last-resort approach and one best avoided.

Where can I find info on how to install and run Snow Leopard Server as virtual machine inside Mountain Lion

Where can I find info on how to install and run Snow Leopard Server as virtual machine inside Mountain Lion

Here is the short answer:
Installing Snow Leopard Server into Parallels 10 for DUMMIES:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17285039&postcount=564

Filemaker Pro 6 Client install on Snow Leopard Server on Parallels

Hey Gang,
As per MichaelLAX "Full installation instructions for Snow Leopard Server into Parallels", I have successfully installed SLS on an ML iMac using Parallels 8. Worked great, thank you.
The only issue I am runnig into is we require FileMaker Pro 6 client to be installed and functional. FM installs fine, but the client does not seem to be able to "see" the FM Server which is on the same local network all our other macs operate and access FM on.
I'm sure there is a preference somewhere that is preventing the SLS install of FM from accessing the local network computers as they are also not visible in finder as they would be normally. I have no experience with OS X Server in general, so any advice is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Josh

OK: Here is what I did:
I installed FM7 on my Snow Leopard Mac Mini and created a small file called To Do List.fp7. I made it a FileMaker Network server file in the Sharing... Menu under FileMaker Pro menu.
I then opened FM7 in Snow Leopard Server in Parallels 8 on my Lion Mac Mini. Under the File Menu I selected Open Remote... I changed View to Favorite Hosts.
Then I clicked the Add button. Then for Host's Internet Address, I entered the IP for my Snow Leopard Mac Mini (in this case 192.168.0.151) and gave it a Favorite Host Name (To Do). I clicked Show All Available Files for this Host and clicked Save.
My server file To Do List.fp7 is now visible in the window and I can click Open.
In my case, since I have only one licensed serialized copy of FM7, it recognized that I was using it twice and told me that error and then quit.
But in your case, you should now be able to open your local area network served FM files!
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