<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">h, apologies — after a while, the installation in the end failed, I’m afraid. I was a bit too trusting of the literature and initial installation steps.
Ken
><i class=""> On Aug 20, 2020, at 9:33 PM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="https://lists.macports.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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</i>><i class=""> Like Catalina, Parallels will install BigSur as a VM even on older systems.
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</i>><i class=""> <a href="https://kb.parallels.com/en/125105" class="">https://kb.parallels.com/en/125105</a>
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</i>><i class=""> for those of you who might have parallels but no current system to run BigSur
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</i>><i class=""> Ken
</i></pre></blockquote><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">So another update on this </i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><i class="">—</i></span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> it now does indeed work just fine to install BigSur in a Parallels VM.</i></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></i></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Even on (at least some) systems that don</i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><i class="">’</i></span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">t officially support BigSur </i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><i class="">—</i></span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> like this MacPro 2010 super-machine I have had for some years now, that runs everything from 10.4 to 11.0.</i></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></i></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">So now I can work out my own BigSur build failures.</i></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></i></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ken</i></pre></div></body></html>