migration

Every time an OS or Hardware upgrade is done, the old haunt recurs. Will it force repurchase of old software to recreate the work flow environment that has been so vital in the past? I have finally completed migrating my software from my Intel based MacBook Pro with Windows 10 on a Boot Camp...

Situation: Migration from M1 to M4 Mac (update from v.18 to v.20 of Parallels) both under MDM Host OS: Sequoia VM OS: Windows 11 Our team recently got a laptop refresh. We are standard version users. The information on moving a VM from one mac to another includes information about copying over...

My receipts for the yearly subscription don't show an activation key. My old laptop doesn't have the activation key either (i'm about to wipe it anyway). I created a ticket in FB Chat and have heard nothing. I even created a thread here yesterday but it disappeared. I'm going crazy trying to...

Hi all Just got my new MBP M4 and used migration assistant to move everything. According to the Parallels KB, if you do this and you use iCloud Keychain it should all just work. Unfortunately when I try to start the VM I just get a message 'Unable to start the virtual machine.' There's a 'help'...

Hello! My license is not working when activating on a new Mac. I tried to follow the KB articles but I didn't have an option to disable my old license. I'm on the SAME version (v17) as my previous machine as this was a migration. When I try to activate via key, I get "This license has reached...

I have a new MacBook Pro M3 with Parallels Desktop installed on it. Also I have an older MacBook Pro Intel i9 where I would like to migrate this Physical MacOS into a MacOS VM to the new MacBook Pro on an M3. I tried already several approaches I found in the internet. Anyone has an easy ways to...

I have a XP vm running on a 2012 Intel Mac using Parallels. I have a new M2 MBP running Parallels 18. I also have Microsoft Windows / ARM running on the M2 Mac. I need to get the XP VM working on the M2 Mac because I have 2 apps that I use regularly that are essential to my work. What steps...

After having a lot of difficulty using Docker with Parallels (which was finally, if somewhat mysteriously, resolved), I had set up Windows 11 on VMWare instead. I did a lot of software installation and system customization using VMWare Fusion I'd rather not repeat, so I'd like to migrate that...

I have been running Windows XP under Parallels for years. On Monday (after several power outages) the Windows XP installation on my Mac OS Ventura asked me to activate it and then shows a window entitled 'Activate Windows' without any contents. I have contacted Parallels support and they...

Hi, I need to copy a user from my iMac to a new VM (Mojave also) I created on the same iMac. The idea is to use the integrated soft MIGRATION tool from Apple (assistant migration in he utilities folder). This soft allows you to select the informations you want to copy. Launching MIGRATION tool ...

Hello. My new MacBook Pro (M1) arrived today and I successfully used the Migration Assistant to port everything from my old MacBook Pro to it, including Parallels/Windows/et al. I would really like to ensure that the new installation of Windows works before moving my license to the new...

First off sorry if this has been posted before. I searched but couldn't find anything on it. I'm planning on moving to a silicon mac in the next year or so and want to start fresh without all the junk I've built up on my system over the years. I would like to get a head start with a VM of Big...

Hi, I have spent hours trying various ways to convert and migrate a Win 10 vm over to Virtual Box, unsuccessfully. Parallels version: 15.1.4 (47270) Virtual Box version: 6.1.12 r139181 (Qt5.6.3) Mac OS version: Catalina 10.15.6 I have tried the following: 1. Using VCenter Converter...

I need to migrate my online shop quickly, due to this situation with coronavirus. So any advice on it?

I tried to move my Parallels Desktop v15 license to my new mac. Restarting PD did not make PD accepting the old license. prlsrvctl activate-license-online ended up with "Unable to confirm the product license. You have reached the maximum number of activations..." Can my license be reset?

Hi. My old MacBook Pro died on me unexpectedly and I had to get a new one. Since it happened spontaneously, I wasn't able to sign out the Parallels account as it is advised in the support documents. When I try to activate Parallels on the new machine now, it first shows the "License is already...

I successfully installed a clean High Sierra VM. Now I wish to run Migration Assistant. I first run it in the High Sierra Guest OS from /Applications/Utilities. It then tells me to run it also on the Mac, but when I do the Mac closes all apps (including Parallels Desktop), logs out, and waits...

I just upgraded my 2013 MacBook Pro to a new one. The new one has double the memory and a faster processor. I used the Apple migration feature to transfer everything from one computer to the other and when I open up Parallels I entered the activation key which automatically deactivate the old...

I want to have a VM of an old Windows 98 PC, so I connected the hard drive to my Macbook and created an dmg of the Hard-drive. Is there a way to convert the mirrored Hard-drive to a Windows 98 VM .hdd file? If this is not possible, do you have other suggestions for me, how I could achieve having...

I am attempting to migrate an Hp PC running Windows 10 to Parallels 13 using my Mac pro running High Sierra. PC - Windows 10 Home Mac - MAC OS High Sierra 10.13.1 The PC disks look like this: Parallels will stop after configuring: And give me the BSOD: I can kill the VM and boot an...