We're using Parallels 8 in one of the lab environments at the university I work at. I've managed to put together a script that sets the default VM for whomever logs on to the machine, but I've been unable to set Parallels to launch at login. I've tried setting a Global Login Item for the Parallels Desktop.app. I've tried creating a Configuration Profile to force Parallels to launch, and that hasn't worked either.
When creating the Configuration Profile, Parallels doesn't show up in the Applications drop down. Because of this I was trying to set it to launch under the Items area. It doesn't seem to be keeping the setting though. Once the configuration profile is created, it shows that it has one payload to deploy. If I edit the profile, the Items line that was supposed to launch Parallels is blank. Clicking save, or cancel, at this point causes the Payload count to drop to zero for this profile.
I'm at a loss here. This is one of those times where I can't help but think, "On Windows, I could just drop a shortcut in the Startup folder and be done with this."
