HOW THOU?

[Raven Raga]

Hi guys i was just wondering if is there anyway to setup a virtual machine and access it to another laptop with the same network?

i got my friend and we are working together as freelance graphic artist here in my home and his laptop is not that much capable in using Photoshop and Illustrator

now i was wondering if  its possible to make a virtual machine in my PC and make him access that machine so that he can use it in work

my PC specs is Ryzen 7 1700x, GTX 1070ti SLI and Corsair Vengence RGB 16gb im also using Samsung M.2 500gb SSD

 

i hope someone can help me with this issue or just dissolve my wondering and responding that this thought is not possible

kudos guys! Thanks in advance

[badreg]

You can use VirtualBox or similar to setup a VM, but there is going to be tons of input lag over the network, and 16GB of RAM is not going to be enough for both of you to run heavy workloads at the same time.

 

Why not just give him access to your machine when he needs it?

[Raven Raga]

1 minute ago, badreg said:

You can use VirtualBox or similar to setup a VM, but there is going to be tons of input lag over the network, and 16GB of RAM is not going to be enough for both of you to run heavy workloads at the same time.

 

Why not just give him access to your machine when he needs it?

i cant let him use my machine coz we are working at the same time HAHA, if only we are not working at the same time id let him use my PC

 

anyways this is a sad thing to hear thanks thou appreciate it

[Darren]

11 hours ago, badreg said:

You can use VirtualBox or similar to setup a VM, but there is going to be tons of input lag over the network, and 16GB of RAM is not going to be enough for both of you to run heavy workloads at the same time.

 

Why not just give him access to your machine when he needs it?

A remote session on a local network should be pretty smooth, I wouldn't worry about this too much.

 

If the laptop is borderline incapable of being usable when running the software, I don't think a VM experience would be much worse on a capable machine. Perhaps buy another couple of sticks of RAM, but you should just give it a go.

 

You'll want to make sure the network setting in the virtualisation software is bridging the network adapters, not NATing behind your host machines IP.