Is this at all possible with the free ESXi?
I have a server PC connected to a big screen in our living room, running a native installation of Windows 7 Media Center for TV, photos, etc. My kids are growing up so there is currently an increasing number of games being installed on this system, threatening its stability.
I would like to separate these installations into distinct virtual machines in a hypervisor, let's call them the Media VM and Gaming VM, that both would display full-screen on the monitor. I've understood that the 3D GPU requirements of the Gaming VM might present problems. There would also be some other VMs I use for development work, but these have no special requirements.
The hardware setup is one computer with one monitor, keyboard and mouse. I guess possible configurations could include:
- the hypervisor somehow allows to switch display between Media VM or Gaming VM
- or, the Media VM is always displayed on the monitor, and inside this a console or remote desktop tool can be used to show the Gaming VM
- or, two graphics cards are used so each VM can own (by passthrough) its own GPU and the monitor gets connected with one cable to each graphics card
- or, other setups?
Thanks
Mike
