> Background:
>
> - Software test lab with approximately eight test machines - all
> identical.
> - Current system is to use Ghost images to restore PC's to different
> test configurations.
>
> If I understand correctly, I won't be able to run a single VM on
> multiple hosts concurrently. Plus, as I think about it, I probably
> wouldn't want to given the bandwidth issues.
>
> We may look at using VS in the future, but for right now we want to
> examine the viability of using VPC on the test machines.
>
> The goal is to have a repository of VM's that would replace the
> roughly 8 different images that we might use for testing. Currently,
> all of the host machines are identical hardware (thus allowing our
> image / restore system).
>
> Oh, and we have plenty of OS / product liscences to cover all of the
> VM's and any copies of the VM's that might be created.
>
> Based on my readings here and the MSDN articles, it looks like a
> workable solution would be to create the VM's that I need using the
> various lab computers, then move those off into a file server and
> consider them to be the "clean" copies of the installs. When it
> comes time to load a configuration, it should be copied local to the
> host machine, then booted. Is there a better solution than this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eric

> Thanks for the input.
>
> Eric