Other new features on Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac. A lot of the improvements are mostly under the hood to improve performance. If you have a MacBook that supports Power Nap, the support is now extended to your Windows virtual machine running on Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac as well so that. Jan 3, 2016 - Once you set up a virtual machine, you install the operating system you. You can use it right from your Mac desktop, no rebooting necessary.
Symptoms
I need to transfer an existing virtual machine to your new Mac.
Resolution
When you buy a new Mac, you do not have to install your virtual machine once again - you can just transfer an existing one.
Important: Shutdown your virtual machine before following the steps below.
- Locate the virtual machine on your old Mac hard drive.Note: in order to transfer a Boot Camp partition, see KB 113658By default, virtual machine files are located either in Documents/Parallels folder inside your user folder, or in /Users/Shared/Parallels.Parallels Desktop virtual machines have a .pvm extension
- Copy the .pvm file to an external hard drive or transfer it via network.
- Connect your external hard drive to the destination Mac.
- Copy .pvm file from the external Hard Drive to any folder on the destination Mac.You can disconnect the external device now that your virtual machine has been successfully moved to your Mac.
- Install Parallels Desktop, then double-click on the .pvm file on your Mac to start the virtual machine.
Note: OS X does not support writing to NTFS partitions by default. We recommend to format your external drive to either OS X native HFS+ file system or ExFAT file system (for compatibility with Windows PCs).
Note:FAT32 file system does not support files bigger than 4 GB.