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Recently the folks behind the useful but expensive Parallels Desktop virtualization app released Parallels Desktop Lite, which is available in the Mac App Store. Although it requires an in-app purchase if you want to install Windows as a virtual machine, Parallels Desktop Lite is entirely free of charge if you just want to install Linux or macOS as a virtual machine. It’s also quick and easy to use – a far cry from other methods up until now that have been complicated, time-consuming and of dubious legality.
Here are the steps required to create a macOS virtual machine using Parallels Desktop Lite.
Once installation has finished, you can simply click the red close button at the top left of the virtual machine window to suspend your virtualized macOS. Each time you start Parallels Desktop Lite you’ll be able to click the large play button to unsuspend the macOS virtual machine.
https://websitesheavenly.weebly.com/cubase-5-vst-plugins-download.html. For what it’s worth, creating a macOS/OS X virtual machine in this way is entirely legal. The macOS/OS X End-User License Agreement (EULA) provides explicit permission: “… you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license… (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.”
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Why would you call Parallels Desktop “expensive”? With Parallels (OR VM Ware), you get fast and reliable windows machines on your Mac for less than $100.-
Get rid of the idea that everything should be for free today!
— EfficientBizz · Mar 26, 12:21 AM · #
How far back can you go with Mac OS versions with this method? Can you do 10.4 for example?
— Scott Siegling · Mar 26, 04:51 AM · # https://everart243.weebly.com/axis-and-allies-online-download-mac.html.
Scott you can theoretically install many older versions of macOS/OS X but the problem is that the Mac App Store won’t let you download older versions. The way around this is to create a macOS/OS X virtual machine as described above, and then USETHAT to open Mac App Store and download the older versions of OS X. For some reason Apple doesn’t bother checking if you’re using a virtual machine to download them. Then you can copy them off the virtual machine and use them to create virtual machines on your Mac.
— Keir Thomas · Mar 26, 08:33 AM · #
How about installing a more recent version of MacOS than the one you are using? I have Yosemite on my Early 2011 macBook Pro and I would llike to see if Sierra is not too slow to use before upgrading.
— YvesD · Mar 26, 09:46 AM · #
YvesD, yes that would work fine. But you don’t get anywhere near native performance in a virtual machine, so your test wouldn’t be conclusive.
— Keir Thomas · Mar 26, 10:08 AM · #
I think Parallels is expensive, too. I like how they often have 80 percent off sales on it. The idea is to get you to buy it and then upgrade when the expensive new edition comes out.
we don’t experct it to be free — just affordable and reasonable in price. Microsoft office for mac 2004 upgrade to 2011. It isn’t.
— Steve · Mar 26, 10:44 AM · #
Once you create a mac vm, is there a way to run that vm in windows via a different virtual machine manager?
— Sirpingalot · Mar 26, 04:05 PM · #
Hi!
Is it possible to install Sierra in a Virtual Machine on a mid-2007 iMac?
— Roger WORROD · Mar 27, 03:34 PM · #
Is there a decent resource for downloading older disk images of macOS, to be used in this fashion?
For instance, I’d like to be able to test older versions of Safari in VMs.
— Brad Bice · Apr 4, 07:03 AM · #
Hi Brad, there’s nowhere online that I know about, or at least nowhere legal (you might find them on BitTorrent websites, for example).
However even old OS X downloads are available under the Purchased tab of the Mac App Store. For example, I have most versions of OS X doing back to Lion listed there. As mentioned you can download them and then just cancel the download.
If you can’t download them because the App Store won’t let you then, again as mentioned above, you can download them within a virtual machine.
— Keir Thomas · Apr 4, 08:19 AM · #
@Roger Worrod. I am running macOS sierra 10.12.4 on a MBP late 2008 with a little help (no, a lot of help) from dosdude1. the laptop runs fine, but I installed parallels desktop lite (PDL) to run W10, because I had used the trial version of parallel desktop to run W10, with no problem. PDL refused to start because my hardware did not meet with its specifications. Apparently, it checks the hardware type and year (mine is MBP4,1; 2008) and decides whether to run or not.
— Ola · Apr 12, 01:08 AM · #
Hi Ola
Yes, that’s correct – unlike the desktop version of Parallels, which I believe has its own virtualisation engine as well as the option to use Intel’s built-in virtualisation technology, the version of Parallels discussed above – Parallels Desktop Lite – can only use the built-in Intel virtualisation. Although this has been around since 2005 in selected Intel chips I’m not sure when support arrived in Intel Macs. Obviously your model from 2008 isn’t one of those supported.
— Keir Thomas · Apr 12, 01:36 AM · #
I can’t believe you’d go to all the trouble of writing so detailed an article on using an app (Parallels Lite) that won’t do Windows, which is probably the most likely need for virtualization, when there is a mature, stable product that will do everything all the other apps do, is written by a highly reputable company (Oracle) and is absolutely free?
I am referring, of course, to Virtualbox, which I have used for many years to provide me with a copy of Windows so I can run the one or two apps that simply don’t exist on the OS X platform, such as the outdated program that our condo’s gate uses to manage our owners (via a 1200 baud dialup modem no less!). Even with something as exotic (?) as a USB dialup modem, Virtualbox worked flawlessly.
I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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— Michael · Apr 15, 02:47 PM · #
I see all my other OS installers in the purchased section of the mac app store going all the way back to mountain lion. The only one not available is sierra but you can download this way
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202 Free Virtualization Software
— Greg · Jan 18, 12:51 PM · #
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