seedpirate Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Is it possible to install 10.8 from a image created in a virtual machine? It seems to me that this would make sense in order to get the OS working properly for the components that you have. In a sense you would be doing all your troubleshooting and refining in VM istead of doing it " on the fly ". That would be install to a freshly formatted partition or blank drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284180-installing-from-vm-created-image/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
seedpirate Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Wow I'm kind of amazed that nobody has any insight or has tried this. I will start the experiment and post updates as I go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284180-installing-from-vm-created-image/#findComment-1865685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron_1 Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 You do realise a VM doesn't mimic your computer hardware therefore renders the task pointless? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284180-installing-from-vm-created-image/#findComment-1865686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 You do realise a VM doesn't mimic your computer hardware therefore renders the task pointless? Correct, would almost certainly fail on a Hackintosh. If you were using a real Mac then yes it should work. I have used Carbon Copy Cloner to P2V and V2P images. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284180-installing-from-vm-created-image/#findComment-1865693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 And I use DeployStudio to create images (on MacBookPro) Works perfectly on real Mac as it will Netboot from Lion Server But I could never manage (did not spent that much time really on figuring it out if it can be somehow done) to boot VM via Netboot So just used another copy of a running Lion in VM & diskutil to restore DeployStudio created image Works perfect Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284180-installing-from-vm-created-image/#findComment-1867232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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