Move OSX to a virtual machine
Move OSX to a virtual machine
You're currently using a MacBook Pro for five years and are planning to run an OSX VM on your upcoming Alienware 13. The challenge is preserving your entire OSX environment, apps, and files during the transfer to a virtual machine. People have tried using Time Machine and restoring from it, but results aren't consistent. Apple makes this straightforward when purchasing a MacBook, offering a built-in tool for Wi-Fi transfer, but that option doesn't seem to work here either. You're looking for alternative free or affordable virtualization solutions like VirtualBox, VMware, or Hyper-V.