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1. #HOW DO I CONVERT PARALLELS TO VIRTUALBOX INSTALL#
2. #HOW DO I CONVERT PARALLELS TO VIRTUALBOX UPGRADE#

I really, really, really do not want to have to install Leopard on an external drive just to accomplish my little goal.

#HOW DO I CONVERT PARALLELS TO VIRTUALBOX UPGRADE#

I am in a right pickle because Parallels (the company) has managed to screw me over - their version 3 application/program fails to even launch in Snow Leopard, thereby preventing me from doing anything fun like mounting the drive, and they want me to pay full price for an upgrade just to work in SL. My ultimate goal is merely to mount and browse this. Where source is your VirtualBox disk, target is your VMware disk and -format VMDK is. VBoxManage clonehd source.vdi target.vmdk -format VMDK. The method here is identical, except that we will be converting to a different disk format. hdd file, given I am running Snow Leopard, I cannot revert to Leopard, and I cannot run any copy of Parallels (that I own) that will work on Snow Leopard? We have used VBoxManage to clone VirtualBox disks. How do I do anything with a standalone Parallels 3.0. (I state this because if I did have those Parallels versions, I just might be able to leverage the. I do NOT have Parallels 4 or Parallels 5, which are both compatible with Snow Leopard, and therefore I cannot create a new VM from scratch. I am running Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.x). All of the forum postings I have found speak of using this. In other words, the Parallels disk image is missing a file that makes it a "VM" in the eyes of VMware Converter or VMware Fusion. It was generated by Parallels Transporter with a Parallels 3.0 compatibility target. I will, frankly, be flabbergasted if anyone can help me.