I have been messing with VirtualBox for a few weeks. Very new to it, very basic setup so I don't have a full idea of it's capability. Bear with me here.
I am not to a stage of actual equipment selection as I am not sure what I want to do is something I, or the "program" is capable of. Thoughts along the lines of utilizing a Ryzen 7 1700 and RAM I already have on hand. Motherboard and case specific to my GPU requirements. I have 4x 750ti half height cards.
I have a remote office location that will need to have at least two, and ideally four separate work stations. The location is not particularly secure in that quite a few people have access, it's also our warehouse. What my idea is, without a full understanding of the possibilities, to have one tower/case inside a ventilated lock box, secured to the floor. I don't feel like if the only things in view are monitors and keyboard/mouse that any of it would be messed with. I know the "easy" solution to my situation would be to have laptops which could be carried out but that leads to other issues and quite a bit of expense.
Two of my work stations will need two monitors. The other two only one monitor. The VM's will be on a shared SSD (~1TB) with one big SSD(2TB) or HDD (4TB) being used as a "mapped" drive for storage for all. The physical tower will be using 10 pro so that it can be remoted into from the VM, each of the VM on 10 home. There will be a shared printer/scanner for all the machines to have access to. For ease and expense of license it would be best to work one desktop from the physical machine and the other (3) from VM.
My very basic understanding is that I will need a dedicated GPU for each workstation, which can be allocated along with disk space, ram, and such as I set up the VM? (my current VM is on iGPU)
Beyond that, how do I allocate the keyboard/mouse to each specific VM?
If you could link me to some basic manner of reading on the subject it may help to clear quite a bit of this up.
Thanks
I am not to a stage of actual equipment selection as I am not sure what I want to do is something I, or the "program" is capable of. Thoughts along the lines of utilizing a Ryzen 7 1700 and RAM I already have on hand. Motherboard and case specific to my GPU requirements. I have 4x 750ti half height cards.
I have a remote office location that will need to have at least two, and ideally four separate work stations. The location is not particularly secure in that quite a few people have access, it's also our warehouse. What my idea is, without a full understanding of the possibilities, to have one tower/case inside a ventilated lock box, secured to the floor. I don't feel like if the only things in view are monitors and keyboard/mouse that any of it would be messed with. I know the "easy" solution to my situation would be to have laptops which could be carried out but that leads to other issues and quite a bit of expense.
Two of my work stations will need two monitors. The other two only one monitor. The VM's will be on a shared SSD (~1TB) with one big SSD(2TB) or HDD (4TB) being used as a "mapped" drive for storage for all. The physical tower will be using 10 pro so that it can be remoted into from the VM, each of the VM on 10 home. There will be a shared printer/scanner for all the machines to have access to. For ease and expense of license it would be best to work one desktop from the physical machine and the other (3) from VM.
My very basic understanding is that I will need a dedicated GPU for each workstation, which can be allocated along with disk space, ram, and such as I set up the VM? (my current VM is on iGPU)
Beyond that, how do I allocate the keyboard/mouse to each specific VM?
If you could link me to some basic manner of reading on the subject it may help to clear quite a bit of this up.
Thanks
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