One Computer, Multiple Clients At The Same Time With Their Own Environment?

[Syndicate]

Hey folks,

I figured this was GENERAL so.. It's in general.

Question is this:

Can I build one physical dual-core system and run 2 seperate clients off the system with their own independent environments?

The idea is, you could use VMware to run two instances of XP or Linux where each instance was completely indepedent from the other, as if there was two physical machines. Obviously there would be two monitors, two keyboards, two mice. Would there need to be two video cards, two sound cards? If this was the case, is it even possible to assign a specific video card to a specific instance of an OS running?

The idea is being able to use one physical machine to operate multiple clients (with their own keyboard, mouse, monitor) at the level of which the system is the same using their own physical computer.

Possible? Ideas? Advice?

Thanks!

 

[JDMnAR1]

Wouldn't having multiple duplicate physical components kind of ruin the whole point of running virtual machines?

 

[Syndicate]

That's why I'm asking what's necessary

A bunch of $20 vid cards is no biggie though.

 

[Jeff7181]

May be possible, but not practical. Basically what you want is a server with dumb terminals... right? You're not going to find that at the consumer level.

 

[skace]

I've never used VMWare to do anything video intensive. So I'm not sure how well that would work. If you don't plan to do anything video intensive, go for it.