Virtual machine supporting multiple displays [closed]

Question

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

At the company I work for we do all of our development in virtual machines. We currently use MS Virtual PC 2007 for this. I would love to be able to spread my machine's display across multiple displays, but I don't know of any way to do this. Any advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

VMware Workstation 6 nicely handles multiple displays. At least it handles my two monitors nicely. And they don't 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 at your own risk, but here is the link:

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

From my experience VMWare is waaaay better than virtual PC, if you can convince your company to use it, you wont regret the switch.

Answer 3

If you work with Virtual PC and you want to use your second monitor, you could use remote desktop on your "real" machine to connect to your "virtual" machine. (If your virtual machine supports remote desktop of course..) This doesn't give you true dual screen capabilities, but at least both screens can show content from your virtual pc now.. This trick will also enable you to use the virtual desktop at higher resolutions (on large displays)

Tip:

mstsc /span

will use both monitors (although the remote pc will "see" only one large screen)

Answer 4

From the commandline: mstsc /span Also, set the option in the mstsc GUI to handle multiple monitors. (Windows 7)

Answer 5

If connecting to Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 and you can use remote desktop to your virtual machine, then upgrade the RDP client to v7 and you can make use of a new switch:

mstsc /multimon