Unsplit a 2GB chucked split drive

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by LiquidSky, Jan 11, 2025.

  1. LiquidSky

    LiquidSky Bit poster

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    I have googled, looked in the paralles forums & parallels site for the answer & cannot find one. I mightt just not know what terms to search fort [unsplit, recombine, etc]

    How do I, via the CLI prlctl command, unspilt a drive back into a single uniform drive? I can see/read how to split with --split, but is there an opposite command to unspilt? It is an expanding 64GB split drive [in the standard 2Gb chunks].

    Ultimate goal is to recombine, convert to a format that VirtualBox or UTM can import. Since Paralles 20 dropped support for MacOS 10.5-10.8, I am looking to move those machines to VirtualBox or UTM for the rare use case.
    Thanks!
     
  2. joevt

    joevt Forum Maven

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    Maybe check the prl_disk_tool command?
    Code:
    command -v prlctl
    /usr/local/bin/prlctl
    
    ls /usr/local/bin/prl*
    
    /usr/local/bin/prl_convert
    /usr/local/bin/prl_disk_tool
    /usr/local/bin/prl_perf_ctl
    /usr/local/bin/prlcopy
    /usr/local/bin/prlcore2dmp
    /usr/local/bin/prlctl
    /usr/local/bin/prlexec
    /usr/local/bin/prlsrvctl
    
    man prl_disk_tool
    
     
  3. joevt

    joevt Forum Maven

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    My Mac OS X 10.5.8 virtual machine still seems to work with Parallel Desktop for Mac Version 20.1.2 (55742). Lack of support doesn't mean old VM's can't still work.
    I agree that dropping support for old OSes is a terrible idea. Being able to run old OSes is the best thing a VM can do, next to being able to run multiple OSes (though many prefer the former).
     

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