apfs

Hi, I'd like to clone one my existing VMs using MAC OS Sonoma as guest. The host is a Sonoma OS running on a MBP M2. On the "File" menu, the "Clone" option doesn't appear when using this VM. (t appears on my Linux and Windows VMs tho). I've tried to clone the MAC OS VM with the PRLCTL...

The word on the web is that due to the way APFS handles file extents, a VM can create tens of thousands of extent entries in the file representing the VM as time goes on. For example see the OWC presentation at last year's user conference. The issue can cause a ballooning of access time since...

Hello, First time posting - please let me know if I need to reformat this post. Actually I wrote and submitted this post earlier and waiting for moderation so that the post will be shown publicly but after 1 day I could no longer find it in my content. I can't get to the 'welcome choose your...

Hi, I have a Macbook Pro 2014, and have an external USB3.0 SSD (Samsung Evo 860 500GB) which I would like to store and run VMs from, using Parallels Desktop 14 Pro from. I will not transfer the VM files from the external SSD to my Mac. The VM's will be stored on the external SSD, and will always...

I'm running a MacOS High Sierra guest OS on Parallels 13.2 (on High Sierra). When I initially installed the guest OS everything was running fine and the VM booted OK. My corporate security requires all drives to be encrypted and so I turned on FileVault on the guest OS. Once the encryption...

I just upgraded to High Sierra and my main hard disk was reformatted to APFS. My Snow Leopard VM on an older version of Parallels Desktop can no longer connect to the main hard disk (the VM disk with the OS works fine, but I keep most of my apps and documents on the main, shared disk). I've...