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If you going to clone from a physical Mac or a clone on a bootable storage device, if possible, boot that system first to make sure it works/is bootable, and also de-activate any software e.g.

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Purchase/download/obtain your preferred cloning software (we list some in our How To Clone Your Primary/Boot Drive article - we highly recommend Carbon Copy Cloner).

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On later versions of macOS your preferred virtualisation software will require specifically allowing their System Extension(s) to run via System Preferences > Security & Privacy, plus they may require to be granted access to Accessibility.

Purchase/install/update your preferred virtualisation software (see list above).

use a web browser to go to and see if you can view a web page

Make sure your actual, physical Mac has a working internet connection e.g.

Mac computer for hosting your preferred guest OS preferably with a working Recovery Partition.

Preparation NOTE: You will need the following: NOTE: This document was written using a Mac mini (2014 model) with macOS 10.14 Mojave running in 64-bit only test mode and using Parallels Desktop 14.1.2, VMWare Fusion 11.0.2 and VirtualBox 6.0.4.

macOS 12 - does not support 32-bit applications, new security/update model.

macOS 11 - does not support 32-bit applications, new security/update model.macOS 10.15 - buggy, slow + the new Apple File System (APFS), does not support 32-bit applications.macOS 10.14 - probably a good one to run (as it's the last macOS version able to run 32-bit applications) but we haven't fully tested running this as a virtualised OS yet.macOS 10.13 - buggy, slow + the new Apple File System (APFS).macOS 10.12 - free, supports most internet/iCloud based services.OS X 10.11 - free, supports most internet/iCloud based services but has secure certificate issues.OS X 10.10 - was slow when installed on a hard disk, does not support latest Apple internet/iCloud based services.OS X 10.9 - was very kludgy and slow when installed on a hard disk.OS X 10.8 - now free, it runs very efficiently in a virtual machine and there are few internet/iCloud based services clogging it up.

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Server) - costs money but you may already be running/want to run this to be able to use PowerPC/Rosetta based applications.If you would prefer to set up/install a virtual machine with a clean Mac OS X/OS X/macOS from scratch please see one of the following articles instead: This article deals with transferring an existing Mac running Mac OS X / OS X / macOS to a virtual machine, or take a bootable storage device/clone/disk image and convert it into a virtual machine. MacStrategy presents this special guide to virtualising a physical Mac/hard disk/clone/disk image file. The ability to virtualise an existing Mac/macOS installation is important and very useful as it is an easy way to continue running your old Mac and also a possible way to run 32-bit applications that do not run on macOS 10.15 or later.

Instructions for installing, setting up and virtualising a physical Mac/hard disk/disk image file Virtualising a physical Mac/hard disk/clone/disk image file VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.Virtualising a physical Mac/hard disk/clone/disk image file Article ID = 232Īrticle Title = Virtualising a physical Mac/hard disk/clone/disk image file VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. See ' About VirtualBox' for an introduction.

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Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Looking for a new challenge? We're hiring a VirtualBox senior developer in 3D area (Europe/Russia/India). Looking for a new challenge? We're hiring a System Administrator/Quality Engineer (Germany). Looking for a new challenge? We're hiring a VirtualBox Principal Software Developer (US, UK, Romania). Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions.

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