Mac OS X Physical to Virtual (Mac OS X P2V)

How I can migrate physical Mac OS Server to virtual machine?

How I can migrate physical Mac OS Server to virtual machine? Article ID: 5403 Last Review: Jul, 29 2011 Views: APPLIES TO: Parallels Server 4.0 for Mac Parallels Server 3.0 for Mac Resolution To migrate physical machine running Mac OS X 10.x Server follow these steps: 1. Attach a USB external drive with size equivalent or more than your Mac Server hard drive. 2. Boot your physical Server from the Mac OS X installation CD. 3. When Install Mac OS X Server window appears go to Utilities menu and choose Disk Utility. 4. In Disk Utility choose your Mac server hard drive (not Macintosh HD). 5. Go to File -> New -> Disk Image from disk0xxx. 5. Under Save As specify the name for the image file. Under Where choose the external hard drive. 6. Then click Save and wait till the image is created. 7. Connect with Parallels Management Console to your Parallels Server for Mac where the resulting virtual machine should be stored. 8. In Parallels management Console (PMC) create a new Mac OS X Server virtual machine using the Mac OS X installation CD/DVD 9. After the new virtual machine is fully created attach the external hard drive with the image file to the Mac OS X virtual machine and copy that image file to the virtual machine hard drive. 10. Shut down the virtual machine and go to the Configuration menu (in PMC) -> Hardware .Click on + button and create the second Hard drive. 11. Start the virtual machine, open Disk Utility. Go to Restore tab. Under Source browse for the Mac OS X Image file (it is stored on the main hard drive). From the left column choose the second (newly created) Macintosh HD and drag and drop it into the Destination field. 12. Go to Images menu (on top of the mac screen) and choose Scan image for Restore. Wait till it is scanned. 13. Now click on the Restore button. wait till the image is restored to the chosen drive. 14. After restoring is complete please shut down the virtual machine. Go to Configuration menu -> Hardware and use - button to delete the first hard drive. 15. Start your virtual machine and check if physical Mac machine was deployed correctly.