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| Thread ID: 143721 | 2017-03-26 10:38:00 | Home Multiseat / Virtualization | hueybot3000 (3646) | Press F1 |
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| 1433329 | 2017-03-26 10:38:00 | We have 4 main desktop PC's at home.. 1. General use (Core2Duo) 2. General use and light gaming..wife still plays "The Sims" (Lynnfield i7) 3. HTPC (Athlon X2) 4. Gaming / VR PC (Haswell i5) With the recent release of AMD's Ryzen I'm thinking the increased number of CPU cores for fewer $$$ could make virtualization a viable option for consolidating the PC's in the house. Basically I'm thinking I could run 2 general use PC's and the HTPC off one system and have a separate dedicated gaming system (currently setup in the garage mancave). The system would be located in my home office so I would only need to run HDMI and USB to two locations. The home theatre audio can go over HDMI but not sure how I would get audio to the wifey's desk speakers. The monitors don't have audio out so that's not an option. I like the idea of having one system to maintain for all of the general use stuff as well as the power savings. I would recycle the GPU's I currently have in each machine so would only need CPU, Mobo, RAM and a bigger PSU to drive the GPU's. Does anyone here run multiple "desks" off one PC at home? Pros / Cons? |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1433330 | 2017-03-26 18:28:00 | I run a windows 2012 R2 server with hyper v in a cupboard. (goo.gl) It's an AMD A10 APU (needs no graphics card) with 32gb ram and 12TB of drives. On it I run 4 lubuntu machines - 2 of them full time, a Windows 10 fulltime and a windows 2008 server fulltime. And have other machines (another w10, another w2k8 and another lubuntu) that I spin up as needed. One of the windows 10 machines is my "desktop" and I RDP to it from a work laptop (or ipad). All works fine for me. But I don't game so that's not a consideration. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1433331 | 2017-03-26 19:14:00 | Was trialing Aster multiseat a few months back for a company www.ibik.ru/ Ran basically two desktops from the one PC at the same time, all you need is extra monitors and keyboard When running its as if you have separate computers all running from one completely independent of one another. You create upto 6 users. The only downside is the amount of outlets you have, you need enough USB ports and Monitor outlets to take them all. The picture on that sites home page basically shows it nicely. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1433332 | 2017-03-26 21:14:00 | I run a windows 2012 R2 server with hyper v in a cupboard. (goo.gl) It's an AMD A10 APU (needs no graphics card) with 32gb ram and 12TB of drives. On it I run 4 lubuntu machines - 2 of them full time, a Windows 10 fulltime and a windows 2008 server fulltime. And have other machines (another w10, another w2k8 and another lubuntu) that I spin up as needed. One of the windows 10 machines is my "desktop" and I RDP to it from a work laptop (or ipad). All works fine for me. But I don't game so that's not a consideration. Thanks. I think for purposes Windows Server may be heavier duty than what I need. I would also need to be able to assign a dedicated GPU to each operating system. Was trialing Aster multiseat a few months back for a company www.ibik.ru/ Ran basically two desktops from the one PC at the same time, all you need is extra monitors and keyboard When running its as if you have separate computers all running from one completely independent of one another. You create upto 6 users. The only downside is the amount of outlets you have, you need enough USB ports and Monitor outlets to take them all. The picture on that sites home page basically shows it nicely. I see Aster only supports onboard graphics so that rules it out for me. LinusTechTips did a video using unraid so I think that's where I would start. www.youtube.com |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1433333 | 2017-03-26 21:36:00 | I see Aster only supports onboard graphics so that rules it out for me. LinusTechTips did a video using unraid so I think that's where I would start. www.youtube.com Nope - The PC I used has a graphic Card. Here's the rear end of the PC, works fine with Aster. Its an old Dell I was given, running W10. Its not high Spec only a Q9300 CPU with 4GB memory 7971 The way they have worded it can be confusing, an external Video card is not the same as a internal card or onboard graphics. Theres a 30 day trial so theres nothing to lose. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1433334 | 2017-03-26 21:41:00 | Can't help with that, nice Idea though. What I can say is if you play any games off Steam and have a decent network you can use the inbuilt streaming options to use the horsepower of another PC. I use a low powered i3 NUC with intel graphics to play games in my Lounge this way with my Gaming PC doing all the work in the office. Any kind of server/client solution actually increases the number of PCs and would seem to be the exact opposite of what you're asking, but it does allow for cheaper low powered machines. The rational part of me (that I repeatedly ignore) says if you have them already and they are doing the job why spend money replacing anything. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1433335 | 2017-03-26 22:08:00 | Thanks. I think for purposes Windows Server may be heavier duty than what I need. I would also need to be able to assign a dedicated GPU to each operating system. For doing graphics though, hyper-v isn't designed for it.....but VMWare Workstation (unsure about Virtualbox) does handle hardware acceleration. Not sure about the assign a GPU to a machine though. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1433336 | 2017-03-27 00:18:00 | Can't help with that, nice Idea though. What I can say is if you play any games off Steam and have a decent network you can use the inbuilt streaming options to use the horsepower of another PC. I use a low powered i3 NUC with intel graphics to play games in my Lounge this way with my Gaming PC doing all the work in the office. Any kind of server/client solution actually increases the number of PCs and would seem to be the exact opposite of what you're asking, but it does allow for cheaper low powered machines. The rational part of me (that I repeatedly ignore) says if you have them already and they are doing the job why spend money replacing anything. The way I'm looking at doing it doesn't require a client machine. You host VM's on a dedicated lightweight OS. I have used the Steam streaming which is cool but I'm looking at general use stuff. The reason for replacing everything is that I have multiple systems that are dated so I can update the lot in one go. The gaming pc update will come later when Ryzen has matured a bit. For doing graphics though, hyper-v isn't designed for it.....but VMWare Workstation (unsure about Virtualbox) does handle hardware acceleration. Not sure about the assign a GPU to a machine though. LTT (vid linked above) showed how you can assign GPU's. They used "Unraid" lime-technology.com |
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