How do I turn an actual 2010 Mac mini with High Sierra into a Parallels VM?

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GerbenW

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I have an older Mac mini that I need to keep alive for a while. It runs macOS High Sierra (last version supported). I have the latest version(s) of Parallels.

What is the process, what are the steps to turn this machine into a WM for Parallels?
 
Probably simplest way, create a Time Machine backup of it.
One of the options when you build a new VM (Click on the Control Centre, then File, New), is to create from a Time Machine backup.
 
Too bad, as I do not know what to backup/migrate if I want to migrate the Server.app (including OD) from one to the other.
 
GerbenW said:
Too bad, as I do not know what to backup/migrate if I want to migrate the Server.app (including OD) from one to the other.
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Hi GerbenW. You can try creating the VM from the macOS recovery partition using Parallels Desktop. Please refer this article for more information.
 
Sathiya@Parallels said:
Hi GerbenW. You can try creating the VM from the macOS recovery partition using Parallels Desktop. Please refer this article for more information.
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How does that article help me? It tells you how to set up a new VM with macOS (Mojave) (beta), pretty standard. What I need is a way to migrate an existing macOS Server setup to a VM, not a clean new OS.
 
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