Has anyone successfully installed DP1 into a Parallels virtual machine yet? Been hitting a wall so far with installing via the ESD...
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macOS 10.12 DP1 _ON_ Parallels?
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The following thread (on the same subject) is on the main page, and not far down from your new thread.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sierra-and-parallels.1977231/#post-23016190
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sierra-and-parallels.1977231/#post-23016190
Unfortunately that's a different topic. I am not asking about runing Parallels on 10.12, but rather running 10.12 as a VM in Parallels.
I know its not the same software but perhaps some of the info may be of help, I have installed macOS Sierra successfully in VMware Fusion 8 following this guide http://www.mikeroysoft.com/macos-sierra-on-fusion-8/
Appreciate that, I'll take a look and see if I can get that to work out in some fashion. I was thinking along these lines already, but was hoping to shortcut the expiramentation process.
Thanks!
In general this doesn't work well. Parallels needs to make the virtual boot partition and without complete knowledge of the changes, it's likely not to work. Better to boot off an external drive than run a VM for DPs. Been down that road and got the t-shirt many times! 
I have managed to install Sierra onto Parallels, it doesn't work very well. Very choppy graphics and some considerable lag. better off running it on a second partition
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Did you use the Beamoff tool to try to improve performance?