attach hdd without install?

Discussion in 'macOS Virtual Machine' started by WalterR7, May 14, 2021.

  1. WalterR7

    WalterR7 Member

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    I have a couple of hdd that I no longer appear to have the pvm for. I know that the hdd are bootable OS-X releases.
    Is there a way to create a new pvm around the hdd without going through the process of installing an OS?
    If I do go through an install process then I know I can then take the resulting pvm and delete the image file HDD and add the existing hdd to it, and in theory the result should be a workable system. But installing MacOS takes a while, and it would be nice to be able to create a pvm without going through that.
     
  2. WalterR7

    WalterR7 Member

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    Ah, it turns out the .hdd are the .hdd built in the past from extracting the install portion from Apple's installation app for the relevant OS. So I probably do not need to keep them around.
    However, that leads to nearly the same question: if you have extracted from an Apple install OS-X .app in the past, getting a .hdd as a result, is there a way to point Parallels File -> New procedure to that hdd if you want to later install another machine with the same OS ? That is, in order to save having to re-extract ?
     

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