Converting HDD to DMG

[Alan Brooks]

One of the big reasons I use Parallels is to build and test OS-X servers but I haven't done it since version 5.

I just finished working about a week on a new server and was about to convert the .hdd to dmg as detailed here:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/5711

so I could deploy the new server online.

I was very disappointed to find that the Parallels Image Tool was no longer in my Applications folder. So I uninstalled 6 and retro'd to version 5. But the Parallels Image Tool won't open the version 6 pvm.

Does anyone have a work around for this?

 

[joevt]

Convert the .hdd to plain format by deselecting Expanding Disk in Virtual Machine -> Configure... -> Hardware -> Hard Disk # -> Edit...

Then you can change the extension in the .hdd package from .hds to .dmg or .img.

 

[Alan Brooks]

@ joevt

Thank you! Had seen that option before but didn't pursue it because it was greyed out. (VM was running)

That worked.