Parallels For Mac El Capitan

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Aug 18, 2015  Software Parallels 11 arrives with support for Windows 10, El Capitan. The newest version of the popular OS-switching program for Macs promises speedier performance. Only Parallels 11 states compatibility with El Capitan and Windows 10. Parallels 10 for Yosemite, and Parallels 9 for Mavericks — were expressly developed for compatibility with the respective OS X releases, and the latter two use that well worn phrase, “or later.” Each time there is a new major release of OS X, you will find a new major version of Parallels Desktop offered. Now Supporting Windows 10 and ready for El Capitan. Run Windows 10 and OS X® El Capitan with ease. Use Microsoft Cortana®, your virtual assistant, on your Mac. Select productivity, games, design, or development, and Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac will optimize your virtual machine settings and performance for you. Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac will run on OS X El Capitan (10.11) as long as you are on the latest update; however it is not optimized or enhanced for El Capitan. You will NOT be able to drag and drop files from Windows to Mac or use Windows Applications in full screen*. I am installing a fresh Virtual Machine of Windows 10 64-bit on the latest iMac running OS X El Capitan using Parallels Desktop 11 for the Macintosh. I am installing only from an ISO image downloaded from Microsoft through the usual online purchase process. On August 19, Parallels released Desktop 11 for Mac. It fully supports Windows 10, including Cortana access in OS X, and is ready for OS X El Capitan.

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This is actually surprisingly straightforward, once you know the hoops to jump through.

Essentially there are 4 main things we need to do:

  1. Download El Capitan from the App Store
  2. Prepare an install image
  3. Create a virtual machine
  4. Install El Capitan

So let’s take a look at those, one by one…

Step 1: Download El Capitan from the App Store

Currently you need to be a registered developer. Provided you are, you can download the beta from Apple’s website (this redeems a coupon inside the App Store, so you need to be on a Mac to start the download).

Step 2: Prepare an install image

This section is all command-line stuff, so go fire up Terminal.app. (Warning: you’ll need at least 15GB of disk space free to deal with this next section safely… more if you don’t clean up the two temporary images we build along the way)

First up we want to install the iesd Rubygem which provides a nice way to deal with Apple’s InstallESD.dmg files:

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Now we want to use that iesd tool to build a bootable image from the installer we downloaded from the App Store:

Okay, so that’s built us a read-only (DMG format) bootable image for the installer. At the moment, though, that’s missing the copy of OS X that it actually needs to go and install into your VM. To fix that we need to get a read-write (sparse image format) copy of the image:

Let’s throw away the read-only version now:

And now we want to mount the disk image so we can add some files into it:

We also want to mount the InstallESD.dmg file from inside the installer we downloaded from the App Store, as it has some files we’ll need to copy over:

Now we want to copy the files from the Install ESD into the writable image we made:

Now we want to eject both of those:

And now we need to get it back into that read-only DMG format:

And let’s throw away the read-write version to free up disk space:

Step 3: Create a virtual machine

  1. Open Parallels, and press the + button to create a new VM
  2. Install Windows or another OS from a DVD or image file
  3. Continue without a source
  4. When asked what type of OS you’re installing be sure to pick OS X
  5. Tick “Customise settings before installation” and click continue
  6. Go to the Hardware tab, then go to USB & Bluetooth, and turn off USB 3.0 support or the installer will kernel panic during boot
  7. Go to CD/DVD 1 and insert the ElCapitan.dmg file you created
  8. Go to CPU & Memory and make sure you have at least 2048MB of RAM
  9. Go to Video and ensure you have at least 128MB of video RAM

Step 4: Install El Capitan

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Okay, now comes the moment of truth: boot the Virtual Machine and you should be presented with a white Apple logo on a black background for a few minutes, followed by the El Capitan installer.

Credit where credit’s due…

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This post was originally inspred by this post by TheBressman on Reddit, however that was missing some steps, so I filled in the gaps with info from this blog post by Jacob Tomlinson. Thanks!

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  1. On the Mac with Install OS X El Capitan.app file open Terminal and change directory to ./Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents:

    cd /<some_path>/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents

  2. hit Enter

  3. Archive 'Frameworks' folder by executing the following command in Terminal:

    tar -cf Frameworks.tar.gz Frameworks

    mv Frameworks.tar.gz ././

    mv Frameworks ././

  4. In Finder check that in Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents directory there is NO Frameworks.tar.gz file and Frameworks folder.

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  5. In Finder check that Frameworks.tar.gz file and Frameworks folder are located in the same directory where Install OS X El Capitan.app is located.

  6. Now copy Install OS X El Capitan.app and Frameworks.tar.gz file (Frameworks folder should not be copied) to the SCCM server.

  7. If you need a working .app installer on Mac side, go back to Terminal and move Frameworks folder back to its default directory (make sure this is done after the files are copied on the server):

    mv ././Frameworks ./

  8. On the SCCM server Create OS X El Capitan package:

    tar -xf Frameworks.tar.gz -C 'Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/' && chmod -R 777 'Install OS X El Capitan.app' && ./'Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/MacOS/InstallAssistant'

  9. Set Run mode to Run with adminisrtative rights.
  10. Tick Allow users to view and interact with program installation checkbox .
  11. Click Next.
  12. Leave other field values in the wizard as is.

  13. Configure properties of the package to copy it's content to distribution point: