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 _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:40 PM Christopher Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > >*> Like Catalina, Parallels will install BigSur as a VM even on older > >systems. > *>*> > *>*> https://kb.parallels.com/en/125105 <https://kb.parallels.com/en/125105> > *>*> > *>*> for those of you who might have parallels but no current system to run > BigSur > *>*> > *>*> Ken > * > > So another update on this — it now does indeed work just fine to install > > BigSur in a Parallels VM. > > > > 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. > > > > So now I can work out my own BigSur build failures. > > > > Ken > > > 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. > > 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: > > https://forum.parallels.com/threads/big-sur-upgrade-from-mojave-no-mouse-or-keyboard.351512/#post-877222 > > Glad to hear it’s working for you, Ken! Hopefully the Parallels folks will > fix this issue soon... > >
