Uhm, shouldnt matter. I just used an ATI 9600 agp video card. The idea was no virtual environment, just a dual screen desktop. One DVI output for the desktop monitor and the other output for the HDTV.
Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which card did you use? On 12/21/07, Tharin Olsen wrote: > Unfortunately a Virtualized environment isn't going to be of much use for > multimedia/gaming purposes. Most of the hardware is emulated in the guest os. > > I have a consolidated HTPC and Desktop that I built for use at my girlfriends > place and it works fine. My secret was to use a dual-head video card. ;) > > -Tharin O. > > Brian Weeden wrote: I wanted to pick everyone's brain a bit about building a > virtualization machine (vm). > > Right now I have 2 machines, my main desktop and my HTPC. I would > like to consolidate them into one box. It would be in my office > behind the wall where the A/V rack is for the home theater. The goal > would be to have 3 VMs running at all times: > > 1 dedicated to HTPC functions with video out from the card to the A/V rack > Either 1 work XP VM OR 1 gaming Xp VM > 1 VM linux web server > > The hardware would be an Intel quad-core (probably Q6600), 4GB of > DDR2. I would like to continue using my Radeon Sapphire X1950XT card > but I think that might be a problem. It has 2 DVI outputs with HDCP > but I'm not sure how it would work if I tried to game and feed a DVD > at the same time. > > Questions I need to get answered before I can pull this off: > > - If you install some new software or have another reason to reboot > one of the VM instances > can you just restart it and avoid rebooting the whole machine? > > - When you boot up, is there a primary OS that loads and then you run > the different VMs inside of it or do you boot straight to a VM? > > - Can you divvy up the resources for running multiple VMs at once so > like each gets a GB of RAM and 2 cores? > > - Would I need 2 Video cards, one associated with the HTPC VM and one > associated with the Work/gaming VM? > > - If I do need 2 cards, how would that work hardware wise? Never done > it before in the same box. Do I just get a board with 2 PCI-Express > slots and slap a card in each? We're not talking about SLI here - but > two different cards working independently. > > -- > Brian Weeden > > -- Brian Weeden
