<div dir="ltr"><div>Is there a good way to get 10.6 - 10.16 installed in Parallels — I really don't want to download all of them from the app store, if that's even possible.</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>—Mark<br></div><div>_______________________<br>Mark E. Anderson <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org" target="_blank">mark@macports.org</a>><br></div><div><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark" target="_blank">MacPorts Trac WikiPage</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/markemer" target="_blank">GitHub Profile</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:40 PM Christopher Nielsen <<a href="mailto:mascguy@rochester.rr.com">mascguy@rochester.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><pre>><i>> Like Catalina, Parallels will install BigSur as a VM even on older systems.
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</i>><i>> <a href="https://kb.parallels.com/en/125105" target="_blank">https://kb.parallels.com/en/125105</a>
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</i>><i>> for those of you who might have parallels but no current system to run BigSur
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</i>><i>> Ken
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> So another update on this — it now does indeed work just fine to install BigSur in a Parallels VM.
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> Even on (at least some) systems that don’t officially support BigSur — like this MacPro 2010 super-machine I have had for some years now, that runs everything from 10.4 to 11.0.
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> So now I can work out my own BigSur build failures.
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> Ken</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>It’s funny, Parallels 16 runs everything I’ve thrown at it... despite running on a 2008 MacPro. That includes leading-edge Linux variants, numerous MacOS versions (10.9 through 10.15), Windows (XP through Win10), and even some obscure OSs from BellLabs and others.</pre><pre>The only snafu I’ve hit, involves BigSur: While the MacOS installer starts up, the keyboard and mouse don’t work. Thus far, only two of us have brought it up in the Parallels forums, so perhaps it’s rare:</pre><pre><a href="https://forum.parallels.com/threads/big-sur-upgrade-from-mojave-no-mouse-or-keyboard.351512/#post-877222" target="_blank">https://forum.parallels.com/threads/big-sur-upgrade-from-mojave-no-mouse-or-keyboard.351512/#post-877222</a></pre><pre>Glad to hear it’s working for you, Ken! Hopefully the Parallels folks will fix this issue soon...</pre></div></blockquote></div>