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I have been wondering for a while and today while watching 2 gamers 1 CPU it occured to me again. Is it possible to run 2 VM's on 1 monitor kinda like split screen gaming i.e. top half is one VM and bottom half is another aside from it making an interesting video, I would be interested to know if someone could make themselves a setup to play local split-screen multiplayer on games that don't support it, if so how?

Thoughts, comments and ideas are appreciated.

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2 hours ago, Niten said:

I have been wondering for a while and today while watching 2 gamers 1 CPU it occured to me again. Is it possible to run 2 VM's on 1 monitor kinda like split screen gaming i.e. top half is one VM and bottom half is another aside from it making an interesting video, I would be interested to know if someone could make themselves a setup to play local split-screen multiplayer on games that don't support it, if so how?

Thoughts, comments and ideas are appreciated.

Well, unless you have the video handled by the host machine, you wouldn't be able to if both VMs have their own GPU. However if both VM's are running off the Host Video, then you could just put  a window for each on half the screen 

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you might be able to do it with 2, you feed the video output of VM 1 into VM 2 and there's a programme on VM2 that does it, but I don't know if that programme exists (probably does) or what it's called so yes it's possible, but it's not really that practical

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1 hour ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Well, unless you have the video handled by the host machine, you wouldn't be able to if both VMs have their own GPU. However if both VM's are running off the Host Video, then you could just put  a window for each on half the screen 

If your monitor supports Split View/PiP you can use that too with two seperate GPUs each with their own cable.

 

Or you can buy a video mixer and do the same thing externally if you want to drop stupid amounts of money.

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