Virtual Machines?

[BillyRain]

Hi there,

If I were to run multiple virtual machines on one host PC, is there any way to get an individual display (VGA or likewise) Physical output from each virtual machine?

Basically I want to use different flatscreen TV's around my work as individual media PC's, and run each one from its own virtual PC on the host in my office.

If anyone understands, any advice is appreciated :)

Thanks

[ChuckFickens]

Will they be running under one host OS or will all the OS's be running as virtual boxes?

If you are running them all under one host OS then it's just a case of running multiple monitors from that OS and making each virtual OS run full screen on separate monitors. To do that though you are going to need enough graphics cards installed to enable you to connect each monitor to a separate card (remember that dual head cards are treated as two cards even though they are one physical card)

You will something pretty beefy to run more than a couple of os's like this though.

[BillyRain]

Thanks for your advice mate!

Bit clearer now on what I need to think about. Multiple dual head cards is a possibility.

I will only be running a max of 3-4 screens and so 3-4 virtual OS's.

If my host machine is beefy, then I might be able to get away with installing crappy PCI gpu cards just to get the extra VGA outputs!

This viable?

Thanks again!

[MarkRae]

I think CF was more asking you whether these screens are to be displays only, their content being controlled from the host machine, or whether you expected people viewing them to have some sort of interaction with them...

You talk of "media PCs" - what do you actually mean by that?

[BillyRain]

Ah I apologise,

No, literally all they need to do is run as a remote display for the individual virtual machine. What I mean by media PC is just an individual OS dedicated to running its own media content (Photos, slideshows, video etc)

Basically I just need to know the easiest was to get say 4 seperate display outputs from one host machine, which are able to be pointed at from each individual VM.

[MarkRae]

In that case, you might actually be over-engineering it a bit. I'm pretty sure there will be specialist software available which will support the output of different content to different devices - no virtualisation required. Something BreezeBrowser, maybe...?

[ChuckFickens]

Can't see why you'd need to use virtual machines for this.

4 outputs and 4 monitors running from one OS with multi monitor management software will do the job.

http://www.actualtool...nitors/%29.</a>

(I've not used that one ^ and I can't find the one I used years ago to do a similar thing)

[MarkRae]

http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00CeWP

They talk of more than one slideshow running on multiple monitors at the same time...