Mac Desktop Finder alias to launch specific snapshot HOW ?

overbeam

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I can see that if I make a Finder alias to the client OS pvm pseudo file I can choose this VM to launch, but this level of granularity is inadequate.

The end user would need to be able to choose which set of pre-configured workflows to use and would need minimal interaction with the option-heavy Parallels GUI in the process. Selecting the snapshot from the manager pane that appears when the Manage item is chosen from the GUI menu is insufficiently terse.

If I want to launch a specific snapshot directly from the Finder desktop, how do I achieve this ?

  • Shortcut to a file within the pvm folder ?
  • Shell script that issues some command line magic ?
  • Applescript that picks the right snapshot to start with ?
 
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