Big Sur Virtually on a Mac Pro

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My Mac Pro 1,1 is maxed out on OS X El Capitan, but it's a great machine and I've previously added additional hard drives, more RAM and a new Graphics Card. It works great. Is there any way I can run a Virtual Installation of Big Sur on this Mac? Thanks. David.

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello,

Probably not, unless you have a version of Parallels or VMware Fusion that can run Big Sur in a virtual machine. However, with older hardware, you wouldn't get the full benefit of all of Big Sur's features.

Since you are running El Capitan on an original Mac Pro, which only officially supports up to OS X 10.7.5 Lion, sounds like you already have some form of patch to run El Capitan. I would doubt you will find one to enable running Big Sur natively, since it has pretty hefty hardware requirements in comparison to Lion and El Capitan.

C