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Hi, I'd like to clone one my existing VMs using MAC OS Sonoma as guest. The host is a Sonoma OS running on a MBP M2. On the "File" menu, the...

Thread by: _Q_, Oct 18, 2023, 5 replies, in forum: Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon

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APFS allows creating copy-on-write clones of files with the clonefile(2) syscall. When using prlctl clone (particularly on macvm's that don't have...

Thread by: mattlqx, Jul 28, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Parallels Desktop for Mac Feature Suggestions

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The word on the web is that due to the way APFS handles file extents, a VM can create tens of thousands of extent entries in the file representing...

Thread by: zslg01, Sep 26, 2019, 2 replies, in forum: General Questions

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Hello, First time posting - please let me know if I need to reformat this post. Actually I wrote and submitted this post earlier and waiting for...

Thread by: BarryW3, Sep 6, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: macOS Virtual Machine

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Hi, I have a Macbook Pro 2014, and have an external USB3.0 SSD (Samsung Evo 860 500GB) which I would like to store and run VMs from, using...

Thread by: clqu, Jan 23, 2019, 4 replies, in forum: Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop

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I'm running a MacOS High Sierra guest OS on Parallels 13.2 (on High Sierra). When I initially installed the guest OS everything was running fine...

Thread by: Simon Wail, Feb 4, 2018, 2 replies, in forum: macOS Virtual Machine

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I just upgraded to High Sierra and my main hard disk was reformatted to APFS. My Snow Leopard VM on an older version of Parallels Desktop can no...

Thread by: BradfordV1, Sep 28, 2017, 4 replies, in forum: macOS Virtual Machine