Moving VM from Intel-Mac to M1-Mac

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by diwa, Mar 8, 2022.

  1. diwa

    diwa Member

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    Hi!
    I'm planing to buy a new M1 Mac.
    Since I have more than one Windows-VM, which needs to be moved from the old to the new Mac, I'm wondering if the following will work.

    - Creating a Windows backup at the old Mac
    - Creating a new ARM-Windows VM on the new Mac
    - Running a restore from the backup created before.

    Thanks

    Dirk
     
  2. DebasmitaM

    DebasmitaM Forum Maven

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    Hello, we would like to inform you that an Intel-based virtual machine will not work on M1 Mac. But you can copy data from one virtual machine to another by following this KB article.
     
  3. diwa

    diwa Member

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    I know, that I can't copy an Intel VM 1:1 to an ARM Mac.
    But I wonder, if I can restore a WINDOWS Backup into the Windows on die ARM VM...
     
  4. DebasmitaM

    DebasmitaM Forum Maven

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    Hello, Intel Mac's VM backup can not be restored on M1 Mac.
     
  5. Roland7

    Roland7 Bit poster

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    Is it possible to use disk/partition cloning software like Norton Ghost to migrate from VM on an Intel-based Mac to an M1 Mac?
     
  6. Aries@PF

    Aries@PF Hunter

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    The only thing you can do that's reasonably close to what everybody keeps asking is to migrate the user data from the Intel VM onto a new M# VM, but you do that by connecting the vHDD as a second drive in the new VM After you've setup that Guest OS. You'll have to reinstall any apps, etc just like you would going from an Intel Mac to an M# Mac device in general. It's all done manually (drag/drop).
     

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