I am unsure looking at these Threads whether they help me at all, as they are adding a 'real' disc to a virtual disk inside a Parallels VM, but I do not have a functional Parallels VM natively on the internal iMac's drive, to be able to 'add' this external disk to - I could create a 'blank' but I don't want to boot from any such 'internal' VM, or it occupy space on my m'board NMVe, but to 'boot from' the SSD, over the TB3 port. The NVMe SDD that's bootable from startup of the iMac via the EUFI loader, but not 'visible' to Parallels is showing up here and there in the output, for example: So I've run those scripts, and attach the output. The virtual controller has nothing to do with the virtual hard drive source. The virtual machine connects a virtual hard drive to a virtual hard drive controller (IDE, SATA, NVMe - whatever you choose). The source of a virtual hard drive can be just about anything - a real partition or disk or a disk image. Note: you can give each EFI partition a unique name - rename in the Finder from EFI to something descriptive like EFISATA / EFINVME. The output of dumpvols.sh will show if it is using legacy boot loader. Mount all the EFI partitions to see if any contain a Windows EFI boot loader. Indicate which partition is the boot camp one that you want to use. Maybe describe your hard drive setup in more detail using the dumpvols.sh script: It should have a "Select Partitions." popup menu in the "Advanced." settings. Show what the Parallels virtual hard drive UI looks like when you try to select the hard drive. Parallels?ĭoesn't Parallels have an option to create a virtual hard drive where one or more of the partitions is a real partition? Do this manually. My broad question remains however, IS there any way to hack either Bootcamp or Parallels to spoof them into 'seeing' the externally-connected, bootable Windows 10 partition as bootable, such that I can connect to it within macOS, through Parallels? - or, any other software that can do this?Īny hack to get a Win 10 Bootcamp install on an External SSD to be 'seen and run' within macOS using e.g. There is no 'neutral third-party' in the system's hardware that could control such things? I do not think it's an issue with the TB3 interface for example, although that was an issue with the inital install of Windows 10, as no-one has a virtualisation solution for the TB interface, usually only USB interface for externally-connected drives (So, I did the inital VMFusionWare install of Win 10 to the internal SATA-attacked storage SSD, and then cloned it to the external SSD).Īlternatively, is it that the hardware resource reallocations required to run Win 10 AND macOS simultaneously, may only be possible when they are being 'addressed' from the same physical location - ie the m'board NVMe. I am not sure 'why'? I guess because Parallels works through Apple's Bootcamp Assistant when in macOS, to find and connect to a Windows Partition, and since Bootcamp Assistance does not support non-primary SSD installs, so Parallels does not 'see' these. But, Parallels does not support Bootcamp Windows installs that are not on the primary SSD - and I've just had an amusingly circular conversation with their tech support to confirm this. However, I'd like to be able to 'run-Windows within Parallels' through Bootcamp, without Windows being on my primary drive. TB3 is a faster interface than SATA so this is the better arrangement for a separate OS. ie the macOS/Bootcamp environment has no issue with detecting and running either OS. I can also 'restart into' from both OSes. This works perfectly - it's detected from power-on, I get the macOS or Windows10 drive-choices to boot into. I've a separate SATA SSD now on that channel for storage, and I have hacked my way using VMFusionWare to a Windows 10 bootcamp install on a TB3-connected NMVe SSD in an external enclosure. I hated the Fusion drive so replaced the m'board blade SSD with one large enough to replace the whole virtual drive array of the Fusion Drive. I recently replaced my CPU, RAM and Fusion-Drive in my 19,1 iMac - awesome upgrade.
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