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VM Conversion Instructions for Mac.md
  1. Copy the VM Image from the USB stick to your mac (say, your desktop)
  2. Download and Install VirtualBox (https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.12/VirtualBox-6.1.12-139181-OSX.dmg)
  3. Download and Install Parallels Desktop (https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/trial/) (you will probably have to reboot)
  4. Open Terminal (command + space and type "terminal" and press enter)
  5. VirtualBox may have installed under /Applications. If so, use the following commands:
  • cd /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS
  • VBoxManage clonemedium disk ~/Desktop/[IMAGE FILE NAME].vhdx ~/Desktop/converted.vdi --format vdi (replace [Image File Name] with the name of the image you copied from the USB stick)
  1. Wait... This takes a while and clones the image to a new format. Once this is done, close the terminal window.
  2. Open Parallels Desktop
  3. Click on the Open button on the bottom left of the window that appears
  4. Select the converted.vdi image on your desktop
  5. Parallels will prompt you to convert the image. Go ahead and save it to the default folder, name it something you can easily recognize.
  6. Wait for it to finish

After all this is done, you should be able to log in.

Once all this is done, you can deleted converted.vdi from your desktop

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