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Choose your required custom settings - they can be changed later.Tick the "Customize settings before installation" option.Parallels will need to create a bootable disk image file from the installer so at the warning message click "Continue" and Save the "macOS image file" to the default location.Click Continue to begin installing macOS.Otherwise click on "Choose Manually", click "Image File" and locate the macOS 10.12 installer/drag it to the window.If Parallels automatically finds the macOS 10.12 installer you put on your Desktop/local hard disk earlier (as per the preparation section above) click "Continue".Click on "Install Windows or another OS from a DVD or image file" and click Continue.Instructions for installing macOS 10.12 with: in your Documents folder create a folder titled "1012SharedFolder" Create a dedicated folder to share files/documents with the virtual environment e.g.use a web browser to go to and see if you can view a web page Make sure your actual, physical Mac has a working internet connection e.g.
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Make sure you have plenty of free hard disk space (a basic 10.12.6 install is about ~20GB before your own applications and you'll need at least twice that if you need to clone it for multiple installations), plus you need ~6GB for Parallels to create a bootable disk image file from the installer, so we recommend at least 75GB of free space (100GB+ if you're looking to virtualise and use Adobe Creative Suite).
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If you haven't already, make a backup/archive of the macOS 10.12 Sierra installer e.g.
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If you would like to transfer an existing Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 to a virtual machine, or take a Mac OS X 10.6 bootable storage device/clone/disk image and convert it into a virtual machine please see this article instead. This article deals with setting up/installing a virtual machine with Mac OS X 10.6 clean/from scratch. MacStrategy presents this special guide to virtualising Mac OS X / OS X / macOS. The ability to virtualise macOS 10.12 Sierra is important and very useful as it is an easy way to run 32-bit applications that do not run on macOS 10.15 or later. Instructions for installing, setting up and virtualising macOS 10.12 Sierra Virtualising macOS 10.12 Sierra Virtualising macOS 10.12 Sierra Article ID = 168Īrticle Title = Virtualising macOS 10.12 Sierra