A while(!) back, I wrote a document about copying a physical disk image into VMware Fusion. This was for a older build of the various tools. Recently I wanted to to the same thing but Using my old Mojave build as a VM and then re-installing from scratch a new version of Monterey and then slowly copying across the items I need and having the VM running Mojave as an emergency backup.
The process from the article Physical Yosemite Machine to VMware fusion Image is just the same, with the following changes.
Firstly, I'm using CCC version 5, which has changed from the version 4 documented on that page.
Changes to the steps on the above page for Mojave install and CCC 5.0 are as follows:
- The disk image won't appear as 'not recognised by the computer', but will appear in Disk Utility. Format the disk as specified, and keep the format as the same.
- - 22. When selecting the remote machine you no longer need to copy a package across or change any settings. CCC 5 will check that it can copy files to the remote machine and will alert you as to any changes required. It will ask for an account and to ensure remote login is turned on.
- Turn off the networking on the virtual machine setup before rebooting to stop any conflicts with naming etc. e.g:
- Disable Backblaze backup
- Sign out of iCloud so that Photos, books, calendar, iTunes are not synced unneceesarily
- Disable iTunes Match
- Turn off LittleSnitch and other un-needed services.
- Change the machine name
- Reboot the VM without networking, perform the above and then turn the networking back on in the VMware settings before the 'final' reboot.
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