Dual monitors, and VMware

[Kendric Beachey]

No dual-monitor experience here, but I have successfully used VMware at work 
for about a year and a half just to run MS LookOut and occasionally Office 
and some of the SQL Server tools.  The VMware "machine" runs fast enough in 
normal usage, but any time it has to swap something in or load something new 
or (gasp!) get something from the LAN, it takes a good deal longer than a 
real computer.

The rest of my box runs Mandrake 8.2 and generally runs like a champ no matter 
what.  The box is a 933 MHz P3 with 384MB of RAM.  I believe I only allocate 
64 or 128 MB to VMware.  I haven't really played with that value; it was the 
default.

I don't know how this would relate to dual monitors, but I did discover by 
chance that Ctrl+Alt+F8 takes me to a full screen of VMware, and Ctrl+Alt+F7 
takes me back to my normal X desktop with VMware in a window.
--
Kendric

On Wednesday 01 January 2003 04:50 am, email2jamez at covad.net wrote:
> I have had experience with VMware.  However, I only ran it inside a smaller
> window on my KDE desktop so I wouldn't know if you could use dual monitors
> or not.  I found in my experience that seeing how you are running virtually
> a second computer in the same system, my computer slowed down excessively,
> to the point where I could do almost nothing.  I don't know if you've had
> the same experience or not.  I'm sure with really good hardware it wouldn't
> be much of a problem.
>
> James
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kurt Kessler" <kessler2k at yahoo.com>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 5:56 PM
> Subject: Dual monitors, and VMware
>
> > Has anyone on the list played with VMware and/or
> > running dual monitors? My question is this...
> >
> > If I get a video card that will supports dual monitors
> > like a Ti 4200 or something, and Im running VMware
> > with Linux and Windoze, can I put the Windoze desktop
> > on one monitor and the Linux on the other? Wanted to
> > see if anyone else had any experience with either of
> > those, and had any feedback. Thanks.
> >
> > Kurt