KuniD Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 (edited) Hi all, I have setup a Catalina VM, using a vdisk with GPU and USB passthrough. I now want to migrate the vdisk boot drive to use a 1Tb NVMe. I have successfully passed through the controller and can see the drive available within MacOS. Where I am lost is what I need to do next; what needs to be setup, cloned, reconfigured, etc. I may be being blind but having had a search here and on Google I haven't come across any guidance for migrating an existing MacOS vdisk Any guidance would be appreciated! Edited December 6, 2020 by KuniD Quote Link to comment
david279 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 @KuniD You can do this in recovery in catalina using disk utility. Use the restore button on your NVME disk in recovery and just select your current start up drive and it will copy everything over. This does not work in Big Sur due to all sorts of changes, I had to use CCC to do it in Big Sur. Quote Link to comment
KuniD Posted December 6, 2020 Author Share Posted December 6, 2020 3 hours ago, david279 said: @KuniD You can do this in recovery in catalina using disk utility. Use the restore button on your NVME disk in recovery and just select your current start up drive and it will copy everything over. This does not work in Big Sur due to all sorts of changes, I had to use CCC to do it in Big Sur. thanks, will give the recovery method a try. Should I select the “Catalina” disk or “Catalina - Data”? Quote Link to comment
david279 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Just Catalina disk should work. Quote Link to comment
KuniD Posted December 6, 2020 Author Share Posted December 6, 2020 20 minutes ago, david279 said: Just Catalina disk should work. Superfast -all done! Thanks ! Quote Link to comment
KuniD Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 On 12/6/2020 at 5:19 PM, david279 said: @KuniD You can do this in recovery in catalina using disk utility. Use the restore button on your NVME disk in recovery and just select your current start up drive and it will copy everything over. This does not work in Big Sur due to all sorts of changes, I had to use CCC to do it in Big Sur. Hi David, Following Spaceinvader One's new Big Sur video I have just set up a new VM. Would you mind sharing the steps you took using CCC to migrate Big Sur to the NVMe? Thanks Quote Link to comment
david279 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Just install CCC in big sur with the nvme drive added to the VM. Run CCC and clone your current disk to the nvme disk. It's that easy. You don't need to be in recovery or anything. Just make sure you have the latest CCC. Quote Link to comment
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