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<blockquote data-quote="kaidomac" data-source="post: 402061" data-attributes="member: 15110">I would imagine that you could load an image over a network, but unless you have Gigabit it would probably be fairly slow, and even then it would probably be pretty slow.&nbsp; Also, you would have to have one image per session since it would read and write to that image over the network.&nbsp; What you could do is put your baseline images on a file server and then have the users load the images over the network onto their machines and run them for there.&nbsp; If you wanted them to copy the updated image file back after a session, a simple script could handle that.Yes, it is possible to run multiple operating systems with Parallels.&nbsp; Parallels does not support OS X as a virtual machine because OS X will only run on Apple hardware; however they do support various versions of Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2 and eComStation, Solaris, and MS-DOS 6.22.&nbsp; Here is a complete listing:<a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/os/" target="_blank">http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/os/</a>Yes, you can run multiple instances of Parallels.&nbsp; It's only limited to how powerful your machine is.&nbsp; For example, if you had a 4-core Mac Pro with 4 gigs of ram, you could run 3 virtual machines (one per core) with a gig of ram each and not experience any lag.&nbsp; I believe you can run more than that, but I don't know how it would affect performance.&nbsp; Also, Parallels is currently limited to one core per virtual machine, but that will change with time so that you can run dual cores within a virtual machine for faster processing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kaidomac, post: 402061, member: 15110"] I would imagine that you could load an image over a network, but unless you have Gigabit it would probably be fairly slow, and even then it would probably be pretty slow. Also, you would have to have one image per session since it would read and write to that image over the network. What you could do is put your baseline images on a file server and then have the users load the images over the network onto their machines and run them for there. If you wanted them to copy the updated image file back after a session, a simple script could handle that. Yes, it is possible to run multiple operating systems with Parallels. Parallels does not support OS X as a virtual machine because OS X will only run on Apple hardware; however they do support various versions of Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2 and eComStation, Solaris, and MS-DOS 6.22. Here is a complete listing: [url]http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/os/[/url] Yes, you can run multiple instances of Parallels. It's only limited to how powerful your machine is. For example, if you had a 4-core Mac Pro with 4 gigs of ram, you could run 3 virtual machines (one per core) with a gig of ram each and not experience any lag. I believe you can run more than that, but I don't know how it would affect performance. Also, Parallels is currently limited to one core per virtual machine, but that will change with time so that you can run dual cores within a virtual machine for faster processing. [/QUOTE]

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