Boot a CCC hard drive clone into Parallels

Hi there, I was trying to boot a hard drive clone (OSX Lion), made with Carbon Copy Clone into a virtual machine. I tried to restore the clone directly from a guest machine with 2 virtual hard drives (1 for the OS and 1 for the restore) but everything gets stuck after a few minutes: my guest machine doesn't shutdown anymore and my host doesn't shut down either (i have to force shutdown) So i have very big stability issues. By the way my host is a MBA mid2011.

Do you know a way to import a hard drive clone into a hdd file? I even tried with Parallels Mounter directly from the host machine, but then CCC tells me that there are problems with the drive... Any suggestion is welcome

 

Its important to note that an HDD clone is an exact replica of entire disk not a file. You can image the disk to get the data into a single file.

Use some disk imaging software for Mac.

 

The normal way to 'clone' a system with CCC is to use the restore function in disk utility, this can easily be accomplished by booting from a OS X Lion installer image and running Disk utility from there. If the system as problems after restoring it can be the result of a bad copy to start with.