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Hi, I'm running Parallels 17 on a Intel Mac running MacOS 10.15. I need to run some apps in an older MacOS. I have a drive with a barebones MacOS 10.9.5 installed. Is there a way to import the MacOS 10.9.5 HD into a VM to run in Parallels? Basically clone the HD into a VM. The main reason is...

Running Windows XP on my 2018 MBP i7 so that I can use an old app called Omni Form due to a specific form filling application that is the core of my business. Now that I have updated to an M4 Max MBP and bought Parallels 20 it seems I cannot just drag my pvm from dropbox into version 20? WOW...

I am trying to figure out if I can import a Windows 10 VM that I had running in Virtualbox on my old Intel Mac to Parallels on my new M4 Mac. I have followed the steps in https://kb.parallels.com/124491 but when I try to open the file (.vbox or .vdi, I've tried both) nothing happens at all...

I have Parallels 19 Desktop for MAC - Pro Edition and I'm trying to import a VirtualBox debian bullseye guest into Parallels. I cloned the VirtualBox guest with VirtualBox, booted the clone, uninstalled the VirtualBox guest additions, rbooted the VM, shut the VM down, clicked "Open" from the...

I have Parallels 19 Desktop for MAC - Pro Edition and I'm trying to import a VirtualBox debian bullseye guest into Parallels. I cloned the VirtualBox guest with VirtualBox, booted the clone, uninstalled the VirtualBox guest additions, rbooted the VM, shut the VM down, clicked "Open" from the...

Parallels Version: 19.2.1 (54832) VMWare Fusion Version: 13.5.0 (22583790) macOS Version: 14.2.1 (23C71) Hardware: M3 MacBook Pro Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a new aarch64 FreeBSD 13.2-STABLE VM in VMWare Fusion and complete the installation/basic configuration process 2. Use the...

Is it possible to convert a UTM VM to a Parallels VM somehow?

In the past month I have had the joyful opportunity to return from windows to Mac life. Once I had parallels installed, I ran Parallels Transporter Agent on windows, and generated a file on my external drive which I named Samsung.pvm. Come to load it into Parallels, I discover that Parallels...

I have a MacPro5,1 running Mojave and Windows 10. Because Apple no longer supports Boot Camp on my Mac, I had to do a regular install of Windows 10 onto this Mac Pro. Parallels 16 Pro is refusing to allow me to import this copy of Windows, either as a Boot Camp partition or as "Another PC"...

Hi everybody I have a problem with my Parallels installation or with a VM: after a long time I decided to import the existing BootCamp installation into Parallels. I have created a new VM via file import from BootCamp according to the instructions. This went through as far as it could, but now...

I have a virtualbox vm in .vbox format that I am trying to import into Parallels 15 without success. Parallels starts to import the .vbox file but then I get an error message saying " the virtual machine does not have a Hard Drive do you want to continue?" In fact the virtual machine I need to...

I have had Parallels Desktop for Mac for quite some time. I've upgraded a number of times. When I first got Parallels, it was to run my Boot Camp partition through Parallels. Then I decided I didn't want to commit the disk space to the separate partition so I imported to a Parallels Virtual...

My old Imac failed to startup, SSD is dead . I still have my second SSD (works perfect ) with bootcamp (windows) . Now i have a brand new Imac and i want to attach that ssd with bootcamp (windows) which is is external connected . Is it possible to add in Parallels ? Please advice, thank you

Hi, I'm trying to import an ova file in Parallels. Seeking in the forum I found 2 ways to do it but none of them works for me. First one with: https://kb.parallels.com/122835 (is with ovftool ) Second one: https://www.parallels.com/blogs/convert-virtualbox-to-parallels-desktop/ When import the...

Hello community, I had a MBP Retina 2013 and recently switched to a new MBP Retina with TB, sadly I realised that I was unable to get my Win7Pro BootCamp over to my new MBPR. I used the migration assistent to successfully transfer all my macOS stuff over but for the BootCamp all solutions failed...

I need to import a bootcamp petition. However, there is no option in the File menu for importing a bootcamp partition, as is shown in your knowledge base. There are only two options: New and Open. I have Parallels 14 Pro edition. Please help. Thanks. -- Carl

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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)?