I would like to migrate an existing OSX 10.9.5 machine to a 10.9.5 Guest VM running on a 10.10.1 host.
My situation is:
I own a 10.9.5 MBP that I use everyday. I have development tools on the machine that I am not sure work on Yosemite.
I bought a new MBP that runs 10.10.1.
I would like to migrate the old machine en-masse to as a guest machine, then I can migrate piecemeal off of the VM onto the native machine.
I have tried several things, but this seemed to get me the farthest:
1) Build a simple guest machine using "Install OS X Mavericks.app".
2) Boot that VM using safe mode.
3) Connect my USB based time machine backup.
4) Start OSX migration assistant (not VMWare migration assistant).
5) chose to migrate from time machine.
6) wait.
I have not been successful. Something goes wrong each time:
1) Sometimes the USB drive is not visible.
- to fix this I go to disk utility and repair the disk.
2) Sometimes migration assistant will not see the USB drive despite it being clearly mounted.
- at this point I just back out of migration assistant and reboot the machine.
3) One time migration assistant locked up.
- I did a shutdown from VMWare menu.
4) Several times the Migration Assistant stopped running and the machine reverted to a login screen.
- I put a marker in the syslogs before I started MA and after it stopped; I saved the logs.
I am a bit frustrated with #1 and #2 because the USB drive does not report any errors while being repaired and it mounts reliably on the host machines.
Regarding #4, before I post my logs I would like some confirmation that this is possible AND I am on the right track.
Apple support politely denied help as soon as I said VMWare.
