FYI -- Parallels 16 now supports BigSur as a VM on older systems

[Mark Anderson]

I don't mind downloading from Apple, I just don't want to do the whole
download from the App Store, extract from the installer, etc, etc, process.
I just want a semi-automated way to do it. The sucatalogs are getting me
where I need to go.

—Mark
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On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:16 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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>
> On Dec 6, 2020, at 15:54, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 22:37, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> >>> On 2020-12-06-S, at 16:16, Mark Anderson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> —Mark
> >>
> >> In my case, I’ve kept an archive of old MacOS installers, combo
> updates, etc, so I used those.
> >
> > I'm currently using VMWare (and I don't mind switching to Parallels in
> > case they have this covered in a better way), but the question is
> > similar.
> >
> > I tried to install a new VM with Big Sur, but:
> > - the VM version I have on my box doesn't let me select any newer
> > macOS version than what I have installed (to some extent this is
> > understandable: they couldn't have known all the caveats of Big Sur
> > years back)
> > - the latest VMware Fusion 12 is no longer compatible with my OS (ok,
> > I would somehow accept that, at some point I do need to upgrade)
> > - but even if I upgrade to, say, 10.15 or 11 now, VMware Fusion 12 no
> > longer supports 10.6, for example, which is the single one that I
> > would *really* like to keep
> >
> > I know that several developers here have the full collection of VMs
> > dating back to 10.5 or so. Even after solving the problem of finding a
> > suitable image (which Apple doesn't really make easy even if you just
> > want to revert to something that you already had on that same machine)
> > ... what's the best way to keep a variety of VMs working?
>
> As you know the 2009 Xserves I use to run the MacPorts Buildbot system run
> VMware ESXi 6.0.0 and are running VMs from Snow Leopard through Big Sur.
> Leopard works too and Tiger supposedly works with an installer patch from
> Landon. You probably don't want VMware ESXi but I would guess a
> contemporaneous version of VMware Fusion would have similar capabilities.
> VMware ESXi 6.0.0 doesn't know about newer macOS versions but that doesn't
> seem to be a problem. The Big Sur VM, for example, is configured as "Mac OS
> X 10.8 64-bit" but works fine. Booting from APFS requires giving VMware a
> custom EFI, following instructions I found online.
>
>
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