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# Transfer a Macintosh hardware installation to Parallels Desktop virtual disk
Setting: a slowly dying macintosh needs to be virtualised to be keept alive
Prerequisites:
- a Macintosh (Mac Mini late 2009)
- another Macintosh (iMac 5K 2017)
- Parallels Desktop v15 (later herein only refered to as PD)
- a bootable stick (to create the bootable disk in Parallels)
- a TimeMachine backup of the Mac in question (here Mac Mini) on an external hard drive
## steps to be taken
- create a TimeMachine backup of the mac to transfer on external disk
- copy additional file to this disk if needed (i.e.: when using Little Sntich -> export Rules !)
- install PD
- create the bootable stick * (see further down/other gist)
- create a new virtual machine in PD
- start that up using the stick as boot medium and install macos