On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, at 14:48, [email protected] 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. > > i would like these 10.11 and 10.13 as vm guest under 10.15. > > 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. > > > > currently i'm trying parallels desktop 15 on 10.13 with 10.11 guest. > > did a basic install and now on the vm guest in recovery mode run rsync > from the original partition to the guest disk. > > is there a better way? parallels has a transporter for windows but not > for mac. is there a hidden conversion utility? > > >
