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Converting an existing OS X Mojave installation into a virtual machine in Parallels. Tentative success! [WARNING - IT'S - Printable Version +- MacResource (https://forums.macresource.com) +-- Forum: My Category (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: Tips and Deals (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3) +--- Thread: Converting an existing OS X Mojave installation into a virtual machine in Parallels. Tentative success! [WARNING - IT'S (/showthread.php?tid=266252) Pages:
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Re: Converting an existing OS X Mojave installation into a virtual machine in Parallels. Tentative success! [WARNING - I - rz - 04-22-2022 Forrest wrote: I’m going to do that when my Studio arrives, but Snow Leopard instead of Mojave. Have an old app that won’t run past 10.7. I have my son’s old mini which I’ll run it on. Re: Converting an existing OS X Mojave installation into a virtual machine in Parallels. Tentative success! [WARNING - I - Robert M - 04-22-2022 Rich, This is the project in its entirety: Stage 1 Find an virtualization system that runs well under Mojave and newer OSs and create a Mojave virtual machine. - Complete. Parallels got the job done. Stage 2 Create a virtual Mojave machine that can run a few 32-bit apps and sync the data to a non-virtual machine without issues. - Complete. Used Parallels to create the above machine, copied Quicken 2007 to it, copied a data file to it via iCloud. Used iCloud Drive to share the file between the viortual machine and the physical machine. Stage 3 - Complete. Create a virtual machine and use Carbon Copy Cloner via the instructions I found to virtualize a scaled down version of an active machine. Stage 4 - Not complete. Create a virtual machine and use Carbon Copy Cloner via the instructions I found to virtualize an optimized version of a scaled down active machine. That means removing unnecessary data and apps like Scansnap, Screens, AnyDesk and several other items that don't need to be on the virtual machine. Stage 5 - Not complete. Switch to Catalina or newer based OS on the existing machine for day to day work and use the virtual machine for the few tasks that require 32-bit apps. Stage 6 - Not complete. Replace the existing Mojave capable Intel machine with a non-intel Mac. Use the new machine for day to day tasks and the virtual machine for the few tasks that require 32-bit apps. Now that I've proven the concept, I am going to start to work on Stage 4. Robert |