> We have 6 Engineers that work on several types of project for
> different customers. We use 3 or 4 software packages and they do not
> all play well with each other. Though we usually only need one
> package per job/customer.
> We'd like to install Virtual PC and have an image for each of the
> different software packages they use. So Each engineer would have 4
> images to choose from depending on their project.
>
> So my question is, what is the best way to distribute the images to
> the Engineers so they can all run them at once if need be? They
> would need access to the local host and to the local printers,
> servers, etc.
> Would I need to have 24 Images, 4 per each of the 6 engineers, so
> they could all run which ones they want on the network at the same
> time?
> What is the best deployment plan for this?
>
> Thank you,
> Scott<-

> Before you get too far into this, have you actually checked the
> performance of these packages in a virtual machine? Engineering packages
> tend to hit the video section pretty hard, and virtual machines emulate a
> pretty basic video card with no 3D support.
>
> Scott Townsend wrote:
> > We have 6 Engineers that work on several types of project for
> > different customers. We use 3 or 4 software packages and they do not
> > all play well with each other. Though we usually only need one
> > package per job/customer.
> > We'd like to install Virtual PC and have an image for each of the
> > different software packages they use. So Each engineer would have 4
> > images to choose from depending on their project.
> >
> > So my question is, what is the best way to distribute the images to
> > the Engineers so they can all run them at once if need be? They
> > would need access to the local host and to the local printers,
> > servers, etc.
> > Would I need to have 24 Images, 4 per each of the 6 engineers, so
> > they could all run which ones they want on the network at the same
> > time?
> > What is the best deployment plan for this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Scott<-
>
>
>