Is it possible to use 1 pc as more with virtual box?

[veljko023]

Hello!
Recently while writing stuff i came up with an idea about how to make 1 pc work as 2 or more. Am i able to use virtualbox on puppy linux (To preserve most of the RAM and pc power) and assign every virtual machine a monitor, keyboard, mouse etc? I would like to use this in order for me to stop fighting with my brother over the PC.

 

[daddysl0th]

Hi there I have used VMs a lot so know a good bit however most PCs would not be able to handle to VMs and the lag would be unusable. Unless you plan to use RAID 0 which if your going to just save up for a PC and build it. If you want you could always fire up a VM with networking, then use "USB over network"to route whatever USB devices you want designated to the guest. Switch to your VM and make sure to disable the automatic mouse over feature in VMtools. If you have the client portion of "USB over network" installed your USB devices should work fine. Your client mouse and keyboard should not have any function on your host OS at this point. Using your Host mouse, move the VM to your second monitor, auto resize, etc to fill the monitor, and click back on the host OS's desktop to release the host mouse from the guest OS. Now the quest OS has a functioning keyboard and mouse ( and entire OS ) , while the host can go about his business.

 

[skittle]

Virtual machines are not the best way to do this because there is too much overhead (extra cpu/ram/hdd) for each VM. Better method is to use "multiseat".
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_multiseat