PARALLELS FOR MAC CONFIGURATION MAC OS
PARALLELS FOR MAC CONFIGURATION INSTALL

Prepare var-file for Packer named vault.json with sensitive values: Copy to clipboard full path to the VM’s folder for the next step.

Locate VM’s folder, usually it’s $HOME/Parallels/.pvm.

Unregister VM prepared earlier: prlctl unregister.

Clone build-images repository: git clone, change current directory to the repository e.g.

Download Packer, unpack it and copy packer executable to /usr/local/bin (or any other directory in your PATH variable): cp packer /usr/local/bin/packer.

On host machine’s terminal window while in user’s Home directory:

PARALLELS FOR MAC CONFIGURATION INSTALL

Now its time to run Packer to install software into build image. In Host’s terminal optimize VM: prlctl set -pause-idle off -faster-vm on -nested-virt on -auto-compress off -adaptive-hypervisor on -isolate-vm on.

After installation it will require to restart VM. Click on it and proceed with installation. This will mount Parallels Guest Tools dvd into VM. Install Parallels Guest Tools by clicking yellow triangle at top right corner of VM’s window.Turn on Automatic login for appveyor user. Click “Users & Groups” icon and then click on Login Options.Click Sharing icon and enable “Remote login” (sshd) for Administrators group.Set Computer Sleep to “Never” with command: sudo systemsetup -setcomputersleep Never.Add user appveyor to sudoers with NOPASSWD: echo -e 'appveyor ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Defaults:appveyor !requiretty' > /etc/sudoers.d/appveyor.When MacOS is installed login as appveyor user and continue with the following steps:

PARALLELS FOR MAC CONFIGURATION MAC OS

During installation of Mac OS configure appveyor user. Click Reinstall MacOS and follow further instructions. It will show “MacOS Utilities” window first. It will create VM and start MacOS Recovery. Browse Free Systems and click on “Install MacOS Using the recovery Partition”. In Parallels Control Center GUI click “+” button to create a new VM.

Computer must be connected to the internet Manual setup Prepare macOS VM image.

You can download the latest DMG bundle by this link

Parallels Virtualization SDK for Mac required by Packer.

Changing Host Agent authorization token Requirements.

Running builds on macOS with Parallels DesktopĪppVeyor BYOC allows connecting an existing Mac computer (your workstation, cloud VM or the server in your LAN) and running builds in isolated Parallels Desktop VMs.

Parallels for mac configuration