Mountain Lion strategy

[Mark Wieder]

????

I'm realizing that I'm at the end of the line for my Snow Leopard
installation. I managed to upgrade my Xcode version to 3.26, which is
the minimum version that AppStudio will work with, but I can't find a
download for any later Xcode version on Apple's developer site that
will work with Snow Leopard. I find 4.x for Lion, etc, but nothing
later for SL.

I don't really want to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but I hear the bells
tolling and I realize I need a more recent Xcode version to get
anything done any more. So I'm thinking of putting Mountain Lion in a
virtual box vm. I know Apple's licensing allows me to do this, and it
seems like a good way to get around this situation, but can anyone
tell me if I can just buy Mountain Lion and install it straight into a
vm or do I need to install something else in the vm and then upgrade?
Probably a dumb question, but I haven't been able to find the answer.

Or does anyone have an alternative solution?

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net