Migrating Windows 10 to a virtual machine

I am a strong advocate of the manual labor in the IT industry:  any convenient solution, i.e. “master” or a “wizard” would give you a lemon sooner or later.

TimeMachine backup would mess your user permissions in some cases, hard drive cloning would migrate your 2006 kernel extensions onto a 2017 Mac and VMWare or Parallels Migration assistant would drive you crazy even if you manage to complete the process successfully, transferring all the Windows flaws alongside your user data.

Nothing is better than a clean and maintained install.

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