Second Mac Boot as VM

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4810526

Opened this discussion and got no reply. Can someone help me here?

"Hi.

I had a hd booting Lion 10.7.4. I bought a SSD and installed Lion via pendrive with that recovery assistant Apple provides. Lion came as 10.7.5.
Also, I removed my CD drive and installed the old hd, having a second internal HD. I have a Macbook Pro 17' Late 2011.

Booting from my SSD, I have Parallels 7.0 installed, already running Windows 7.
I had already installed a whole bunch of programs in the old hd, and some of them I cannot access through the ssd boot... such as Adobe and Office

What I wanted to do: I want to boot my old hd as a virtual machine, so that I don't have to restart the computer every time i want to run those apps!
I tried via Parallels and even via Apple features, but couldn't.

Haven't found any info around for a case exactly like mine.

Thanks in advance

Vítor"
 
The solution is something like:
1. Back it up (the system you want to have as a VM) with Time Machine (should also work with carbon copy cloner or super duper).
2. Create a new Lion VM
3a. Start the VM in Recovery Mode and do a Restore from TM backup.
3b. If you used CCC or SD use the restore functionality of those programs.

Note: There's is no hardware acceleration for OSX working as a VM, so you might want to rethink about those Adobe programs (forget about doing heavy photo/graphic editing that uses GPU).
 
Ain't there another way of doing this?

Just "activate" the VM?

Because I don't even have enough space left to back everything up and then access. It backups absolutely everything; doing this with a 500gb+ boot becomes unhandly...

Maybe a "fake" VM, just allowing to access it?
Since I can access my old HD files from this Boot, would it conflict?

(Correct me if I am wrong: With time machine, the whole boot becomes a "file", and booting from the SSD and installing this backup would simply activate that "file", which was 100% inactive, while the "real" boot is being read in a different way/slaveish, with some important system files being accessed even if not booting from it? [Don't know if I was clear enough...?] )


Thanks in advance

Vítor
 
Your REAL question is: Does Parallels support OS X Virtual Machines based directly on real OS X partitions, like it does for Windows in Bootcamp?

The answer is: No.
 
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