I'm hoping to give an install a try later this week, I'll report back.

We always have a few students running Macs, which screws us up since a lot of the software we use in the courses is Win based. Our uni has a virtual computing lab and they've really been helpful for this problem. We spend a little time creating an os image with the software fully installed, and students can remote in to a virtual machine. It completely eliminates our old problems of spending 90% of the demo time getting people up and running.