Install Mojave In Parallels

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Install mojave in parallels 2019

I had a weird experience with an Parallels MacOS vm on my MacBook Pro this week. By accident I stumbled upon a solution / workaround.

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Background story

How to Install macOS Mojave in a Virtual Machine with Parallels Lite Get Parallels Desktop Lite free from the Mac App Store Next, download the macOS Mojave beta installer from the Mac App Store to the Mac – when the download completes be sure to quit out of the Mojave installer and do not install it. If you running Mojave do the following to install macOS Mojave VM with Parallels Desktop: Open Parallels Desktop.app from the Applications folder and select File New. Scroll to the right under Free Systems select Install macOS 10.14 Using the Recovery Partition Click Continue and proceed with the installation. This means that if your Mac is older than 2012 it won't officially be able to run Catalina or Mojave. In the case of Catalina that includes all the old-style Mac Pro models, pre-'trash can'.

With either Parallels or VMware Fusion, you can start with a clone of your Mojave installation or install one from scratch, and then keep Mojave running in a bottle forever. Launch the app when you.

Earlier this year, I enrolled for the Mojave beta program, but reverted back to High Sierra (which my MBP 2017 came with). All was good. I could go into Disk Utility, wipe the disk and reinstall High Sierra from MacOS Utilities, and Mojave when I later installed the public release of Mojave. The funny thing was, when installing a Parallels vm from recovery, it would install Mojave beta.

Daisydisk. I had almost given up fixing this, but I made a discovery on another MBP I was working on. I had upgraded to Mojave from High Sierra (which it also shipped with) on that MBP and reinstalled it multiple times as described above. But one time on this MBP, I restarted the machine right after wiping the disk. I though that I could go back into MacOS Utilities after the restart, but the Mac just asked for a internet connection and had a spinning globe on a black background. After a while, it jumped back into MacOS Utilities.

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Guess what. Now the reinstall option had reverted to High Sierra! This Mac had Mojave before the last disk wipe. So I tried the same on my own MBP, which had the same result.

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This solved my Parallels beta problem! Now I get High Sierra when installing a vm from recovery (even if i upgraded to Mojave again on the host).

The solution

Install Mojave In Parallels 2019

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So if you are getting beta images in Parallels, remove your Mac from the beta program (if you haven’t already), wipe your disk and restart.

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To me it’s still a mystery why Parallels shows me High Sierra as the recovery OS when the host it self shows Mojave. But that is a case for a later troubleshooting session.