Found an awesome use of dual monitors!

[Fox5]

Two monitors, two operating systems. Can anyone guess which is the host?

It's pretty cool, side by side it looks like two computers running, except I can easily move from one to the other.

 

[xSauronx]

is there anything on steam that will run in a vm? im guessing linux is the host because xp hasnt been customized, and your linux desktop has.

 

[aceO07]

Virtual machines are nice. I do the reverse. I use Win7 pro 64bit as host and have Ubuntu guests.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha I like doing that with VNC. I only started doing that recently, I install a GUI on my servers, configure VNC, then instead of having multiple local putty sessions I just VNC and have all my sessions in there. Makes for less open windows locally. I just full screen the VNC session on one monitor.

 

[Fox5]

OpenGL 3d acceleration works in a VM.
There's a version of Wine made for Windows that can be installed, thus making D3D use OpenGL.
So apparently quite a bit can be made to work in the VM... as long as it'll work with < 128MB of vram and a limited subset of features provided by the virtualbox opengl driver. (it doesn't seem to support texture compression, at least not all the possible variants, so quite a few things don't work just off of that)

 

[rasczak]

I've been doing this for a while now. It's pretty cool. I'm using Ubuntu as my host with an Xp os inside virtualbox. I really don't use the windows OS much, so it's off unless i get nostalgic and want to turn it on. otherwise i do pretty much everything on my linux box. even my gaming.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've long felt that MS is missing out on an opportunity, to make Windows multi-headed, to allow multiple seperate user console logins on machines with multi-display (and a USB keyboard and mouse).

Jetway used to sell some add-on software for use with their motherboards, called "MagicTwin" that would do this, but it got bought out by ncompute.

 

[her209]

Is it dual monitor if you use two monitors, two (real) computers, and Synergy?

 

[MadAd]

I've long felt that MS is missing out on an opportunity, to make Windows multi-headed, to allow multiple seperate user console logins on machines with multi-display (and a USB keyboard and mouse).

Jetway used to sell some add-on software for use with their motherboards, called "MagicTwin" that would do this, but it got bought out by ncompute.

Yes! But then you just know theyd want per seat licencing, think of the savings for small business otherwise...but certainly with the ever growing power of a single pc and if the house sticks to light tasks (web IM music stream vid browser games etc) its certainly within the boundaries of hardware today...as a new revenue stream MS could do worse than come up with a wireless home terminal server for families. What do we do now? pass the older pcs down and lash together a home network..no cash there for them.