Dual monitors, and VMware

[email2jamez at covad.net]

Kendric just gave me an idea.  On KDE you have multiple desktops which you
can switch between.  So, why not make VMware run full screen on one desktop,
and then run your KDE session on one of the others?

James

From: "Kendric Beachey" <ak at kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Dual monitors, and VMware

> 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
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