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+# Transfer a Macintosh hardware installation to Parallels Desktop virtual disk
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+Setting: a slowly dying macintosh needs to be virtualised to be keept alive
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+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
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+## steps to be taken
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+- 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