{"id":15802,"date":"2018-07-14T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=15802"},"modified":"2018-07-14T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T01:13:59","slug":"parallels-desktop-no-iso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/parallels-desktop-no-iso\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallels Desktop Didn&#8217;t Need an ISO After All!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"box-shadow-right\" title=\"Parallels install Mojave directly step 2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Parallels-install-Mojave-directly-step-2-1.png\" alt=\"Parallels install Mojave directly step 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>Remember last week when I told the story of how I wanted to run Mojave in a virtual machine and I did everything I could to ignore Steven Goetz&#8217;s advice that I needed to turn the installer into an ISO? And then I had to begrudgingly admit that he was right?<\/p>\n<p>Well guess what? You DON&#8217;T have to turn the installer into an ISO if you&#8217;re using Parallels Desktop 13! I had posted a question in the forums before finishing last week&#8217;s blog post, but the answer came in after I did the show. The respondent wrote:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, if you are running Parallels Desktop 13, then just click File -&gt; New -&gt; Install Windows or Other OS -&gt; Choose Manually, then drug-n-drop the Install Mojave.app to the window.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure enough, I opened Parallels Desktop, selected the manual option to choose an OS to install, and I was able to directly choose Install MacOS Mojave Beta.app that had been downloaded directly from Apple.<\/p>\n<p>While Steven&#8217;s solution would <em>technically<\/em> work, there was a far easier way. This is one of the reasons you might want to consider paying for a polished package like Parallels Desktop rather than the open source Open Box from Oracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember last week when I told the story of how I wanted to run Mojave in a virtual machine and I did everything I could to ignore Steven Goetz&#8217;s advice that I needed to turn the installer into an ISO? And then I had to begrudgingly admit that he was right? Well guess what? You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[147],"tags":[2667,2608,2664,2662,2663],"class_list":["post-15802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-beta","tag-mojave","tag-parallels-desktop","tag-virtual-machine","tag-vm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15809,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions\/15809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}