> 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)? > > > > 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? >
I have Parallels running VMs for 10.5 to 10.15 on a 10.14 system. Every one works perfectly. Rarely, there is a screen artifact on 10.5, that I fix by logging into it using Screen Sharing (on the same mac running Parallels) and rebooting it. I have most of them set up as 8 processor 16GB RAM systems, and they scream. I will often run two of them simultaneously building LLVM or Webkit2-gtk to get the older systems working. I use VirtualBox for 10.4 Intel, as Parallels won't support that. It is not easy with 10.4, but it works. Ken
