I have an external, bootable USB drive with OSX 11.5 installed and would like to convert it to a VM on my Macbook... I use the drive as a development environment and want it now to be a VM on my Macbook rather than on an external drive. How would I do this (I know this can be done in Fusion)?
Hello @RandolphR, If this is a USB installation media, you could create the VM as mentioned in this article. or If this is a portable OS (like Windows-to-go), try installing the Parallels Desktop on this OS X and create the VM from recovery partition. Let us know if you have a different requirement.
Hello Sasti, I need to make a paralel vm from a macOS partition that I already on my system, how do I do that? Your help is greatly appriciated. Thanks! This is Max.
Hello Max, Unfortunately, host macOS cannot be converted into Parallels Virtual Machines. Kindly find below the Supported OS (Windows): Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 * Please refer to this link for more information: https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/resources/#movingpc Thank you.
Can you not simply point the VM's installer (mid-installation process) to a Time Machine backup? Even if you have to do it as a manual installation?
