![]() ![]() ![]() (You might be able to do it with a USB drive if you have the Extension pack for VirtualBox, but I have not tried it.) Creating the macOS High Sierra installer The "network share" bit is important, so that it is accessible from a macOS virtual machine without access to USB ports. I just did a normal Time Machine backup, to a network share. So my plan was to create a new installation of macOS as a virtual machine, then restore a Time Machine image from the current physical Mac Mini onto that installation. ![]() I also wanted to avoid doing a new macOS installation and installing the software on that, because setting up wireless scanning requires plugging the scanner into the computer first, and that is a pain without Extension pack for VirtualBox which does not permit commercial use. The backup/storage side is easily replicated without macOS, but the ScanSnap software is a pain and I want to keep it. I have an old Mac Mini which does just two things: it acts as a storage server, to which other machines back up automatically, and it runs the software for our Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner. ![]()
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