Trying to get the team on CAD

[josh.pruim]

Since our team is more than 88% Mac users, I was thinking of using DreamSpark accounts and Autodesk Education accounts to put together some Windows drives. These would be consisting of

• A 32 GB Flash Drive ($25-30)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (Free via DreamSpark)
• Autodesk Inventor 2013 (Free via Autodesk Education)
• A Portable VMX/OVF file that maps the drive for Virtualization software

I would assume this may be the best way, rather than asking the Mac owners to install a Windows partition, but to simply have a flash drive that contains the system pre-loaded and configured, and boot it with VMWare/VirtualBox/Physical Boot. Would this be the best way to go at it? or are there better ways? (Trying to avoid an installation of much to the Mac)