One hint: Plug the drive directly into the machine, not via a hub. Stop when prompted to migrate (if you create a user account, you've gone too far).Ĥ) Plug in the clone, and manually connect it to the VM from the VM menu if not prompted. Make sure you edit the drive to be large enough to hold all the files on the clone. Note: Make sure to check the option, Show Time Machine in the Menu bar to access Time Machine in future from the menu bar.
Now on the Time Machine screen, click on the Select Backup Disk button on the right side. Make VERY sure you're booted from the right drive when you do this!ģ) Create a clean 10.9.5 VM as you've done. On the System Preferences screen, click on the Time Machine option.
BACKUP MY MAC TO THE CLOUD USING TIME MACHINE FULL
The hard links are much more difficult to navigate than a real clone.ġ) Do a full clone, including the recovery partitionĢ) Boot the full clone and then remove/uninstall any unnecessary files/software. Try using a full bootable clone instead of time machine (I use Carbon Copy Cloner from Time machine can have silent corruption (particularly if you've used in pre 10.8), and doesn't reliably back up the entire machine. Regarding #4, before I post my logs I would like some confirmation that this is possible AND I am on the right track.Īpple support politely denied help as soon as I said VMWare.įWIW, you may find the development tools don't work in a VM since there's no 3d acceleration. I am a bit frustrated with #1 and #2 because the USB drive does not report any errors while being repaired and it mounts reliably on the host machines. I put a marker in the syslogs before I started MA and after it stopped I saved the logs. at this point I just back out of migration assistant and reboot the machine.ģ) One time migration assistant locked up.Ĥ) Several times the Migration Assistant stopped running and the machine reverted to a login screen. to fix this I go to disk utility and repair the disk.Ģ) Sometimes migration assistant will not see the USB drive despite it being clearly mounted. Something goes wrong each time:ġ) Sometimes the USB drive is not visible. I have tried several things, but this seemed to get me the farthest:ġ) Build a simple guest machine using "Install OS X Mavericks.app".ģ) Connect my USB based time machine backup.Ĥ) Start OSX migration assistant (not VMWare migration assistant).
I would like to migrate the old machine en-masse to as a guest machine, then I can migrate piecemeal off of the VM onto the native machine. I have development tools on the machine that I am not sure work on Yosemite. I would like to migrate an existing OSX 10.9.5 machine to a 10.9.5 Guest VM running on a 10.10.1 host.
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