macos as vm guest

[Peter Varga]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, at 14:48, macports at parvis.nl wrote:
> after my development mac mini died (and the time backup appeared to be 
> corrupt) i had to buy another mac. 
> now i have a 2013 imac that can run catalina, but sometimes i also need 
> 10.11 for older hardware and software, and 10.13 for compatibilty with 
> our other macs.
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> i would like these 10.11 and 10.13 as vm guest under 10.15.
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> which hypervisor should i use (paralells desktop, vmware, virtualbox, other)?

Parallels is worth every penny of it.  I have no affiliation with Parallels, it just work really well.  Some guest do not sync time that can be a nuisance but a few shell-foo it can be made work.  Once I started Parallel that’s it: I save more money by saving time than ~$100 a year. 

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> currently i'm trying parallels desktop 15 on 10.13 with 10.11 guest.
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> did a basic install and now on the vm guest in recovery mode run rsync 
> from the original partition to the guest disk.
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> is there a better way? parallels has a transporter for windows but not 
> for mac. is there a hidden conversion utility?
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