Multiple Display Virtual Machine

Question

Is there a way to get MS Virtual PC 2007 to support multiple displays? Or is there another virtual machine product that will allow me to work with multiple displays?

In the company I am working on, we are doing all our development on virtual machines. We are currently using MS Virtual PC 2007 for this. I would like to be able to distribute my machine display across multiple displays, but I do not know how to do this. Any advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

VMware Workstation 6 handles multiple displays perfectly. At least it does a great job with my two monitors. And they do not even have to be the same size.

Answer 2

I once saw a tool that converts Virtual PC to VMWare, never used it, so use it at your own risk, but here is the link:

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/faqs.html

In my experience, VMWare will be better than a virtual PC, if you can convince your company to use it, you will not regret the switch.

Answer 3

If you work with Virtual PC and want to use your second monitor, you can use the remote desktop on your "real" machine to connect to your "virtual" machine. (If your virtual machine, of course, supports remote desktop). This does not give you real opportunities with two screens, but at least on both screens you can now display content from your virtual computer. This trick will also allow you to use a higher resolution virtual desktop (on large displays)

Tip:

mstsc / span

will use both monitors (although the remote computer "sees" only one large screen)

Answer 4

From the command line: mstsc / span In addition, set the parameter in the mstsc GUI to handle multiple monitors. (Windows 7)

Answer 5

If you are connecting to Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, and you can use Remote Desktop on your virtual machine, upgrade the RDP client to version v7 and you can use the new switch:

mstsc /multimon