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Macos sierra 10.126/9/2023 After the installation completes and the virtual machine reboots please be patient, especially with any black/white/grey screens - everything can be slower in a virtual environment.At the macOS Utilities screen, click "Install macOS" and click "Continue".The virtual machine will reboot to the macOS install screen (Apple logo + whirling wheel underneath).Close the settings window and click "Continue".Hardware > Sound & Camera > untick "Share Mac Camera".Hardware > Network > Source > choose "Ethernet" - the virtual environment will use your physical Mac's Ethernet network configuration.Hardware > Video > Video memory - the more memory assigned the higher the resolution available for the virtual environment.in your Documents > "1012SharedFolder" (as per the preparation section above) Options > Sharing - for best security set "Share Folders' to "None", untick 'Share iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive' + 'Map Mac volumes to virtual machine' and click "Custom Folders…" to add your dedicated shared folder e.g.Choose your required custom settings - they can be changed later.Tick the "Customize settings before installation" option.Parallels will need to create a bootable disk image file from the installer so at the warning message click "Continue" and Save the "macOS image file" to the default location.Click Continue to begin installing macOS.Otherwise click on "Choose Manually", click "Image File" and locate the macOS 10.12 installer/drag it to the window.If Parallels automatically finds the macOS 10.12 installer you put on your Desktop/local hard disk earlier (as per the preparation section above) click "Continue".Click on "Install Windows or another OS from a DVD or image file" and click Continue.Instructions for installing macOS 10.12 with: in your Documents folder create a folder titled "1012SharedFolder" Create a dedicated folder to share files/documents with the virtual environment e.g.use a web browser to go to and see if you can view a web page Make sure your actual, physical Mac has a working internet connection e.g.Make sure you have plenty of free hard disk space (a basic 10.12.6 install is about ~20GB before your own applications and you'll need at least twice that if you need to clone it for multiple installations), plus you need ~6GB for Parallels to create a bootable disk image file from the installer, so we recommend at least 75GB of free space (100GB+ if you're looking to virtualise and use Adobe Creative Suite).On later versions of macOS your preferred virtualisation software will require specifically allowing their System Extension(s) to run via System Preferences > Security & Privacy, plus they may require to be granted access to Accessibility.Purchase/install/update your preferred virtualisation software.If you haven't already, make a backup/archive of the macOS 10.12 Sierra installer e.g.
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