Hi All, I was hoping that there may be someone else out there with a setup similar to ours who can give some guidance. We have just made the jump from 250+ triple boot Macs to Parallels. And while everything is working I need some help fine tuning the config. Essentially what we have is an image with undo disk option activated and a fixed size image (as I was of the impression that this would speed things up a little) There are two things I would like to know: 1. Can you stop the initial snapshot on each startup and just have it refer to a ""standard snapshot"? Our machines are taking up to 6 minutes to do the snapshot, and seem to take longer the first time it is run each day. ie. subsequent startups during the day are relatively quick. This has lead me to thinking maybe there is a better way for me to do this which I am unaware. I have thought about having a second copy of the VM hidden in the machine and having it overwrite the users version each night, instead of having undo disks. Do people think this might be a more appropriate way to manage this. 2. Printers, they work fine but is there a way for users to change the port relay from within a full screen VM. Reason being our printers require an active directory login to manage prints, this is hijacked from Mac OS (VM's are not bound and log in with a generic account to simplify and speed things up.) To date I have not been able to get ports 2 and 3 to work for some reason so we are sticking with 1 and a printer called default in VM with uses port 1. We have a printer in each lab and currently port one point to the same Mac OS printer on every machine as we have just pushed down the completed VM. Can I just change the config file and push this seperatly overwriting whatever in there currently. Essentially using one VM with many configuration files to point to apprpraite printer? Or is there a better way, like letting the user choose from within a full screen VM environment. Sorry for the long winded letter. Cheers Dan
