2 OS 1 Laptop

[synthicyde]

I have a Zenbook Pro Duo, one of the laptops with the dual screens. I was thinking about the recent LTT video where he built the couples computer off one PC. I was wondering if that would be possible in this laptops form factor. Using that VM setup, couldn't you run on OS on the top screen and another on the bottom? Has anyone tried this? I would love to try it myself but I cannot afford the down time because I use my laptop for work.

[synthicyde]

1 minute ago, epicdotexe said:

There's no down time. Just download "VMWare Workstation Player" or "VirtualBox," grab a Windows ISO, and install it in a virtual machine. You can keep working while it installs even.

I'm talking about something different. Of course I can run a VM on my desktop. I'm talking about doing the VM base layer with two separate vms running, one on each screen. Like the Perfect Couples PC or even like the 6 Editors 1 CPU setup

[Moonzy]

you would need a separate kb and mouse for them, dont you?

 

and if both display goes thru 1 GPU (probably the iGPU), then i don't think it's feasible, for the method linus used anyways, pretty sure there are other ways to achieve what you want.

[WereCatf]

43 minutes ago, synthicyde said:

Using that VM setup, couldn't you run on OS on the top screen and another on the bottom?

Since both displays are connected to the same GPU, you'd need to be running two virtual-machines on top of a desktop-OS, if you wanted them to really act like two completely separate ones. Obviously, it's possible, but rather wasteful of resources.

[FloRolf]

If you were to do it the unraid way, you need at least 1 core for unraid and then you get one dual and one single core machine with most 4core laptops. Yikes. 

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

If you were to do it the unraid way, you need at least 1 core for unraid and then you get one dual and one single core machine with most 4core laptops. Yikes. 

Unraid is not an option, since, like was mentioned, both displays are connected to the same GPU. You cannot divide a GPU per display for VMs to use.

[synthicyde]

11 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Unraid is not an option, since, like was mentioned, both displays are connected to the same GPU. You cannot divide a GPU per display for VMs to use.

The laptop does have a dedicated GPU along with integrated graphics. Would it be possible to make one stick to integrated and the other stick with the gpu?

 

11 hours ago, FloRolf said:

If you were to do it the unraid way, you need at least 1 core for unraid and then you get one dual and one single core machine with most 4core laptops. Yikes. 

The Zenbook Pro Duo (the dualscreen one I have) has an i9-9980HK which is an 8 core laptop. 1 for unraid, 4 for one os and 3 for the other. Still a waste of resources but much more manageable. 

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, synthicyde said:

The laptop does have a dedicated GPU along with integrated graphics. Would it be possible to make one stick to integrated and the other stick with the gpu?

No, because the displays are still connected only to one of the GPUs.

[synthicyde]

1 hour ago, WereCatf said:

No, because the displays are still connected only to one of the GPUs.

Yeah, that's what I thought. 

1 hour ago, epicdotexe said:

The premise of this thread is getting silly.

Dude, the premise of this thread started silly. Of course there is a better and easier way to do this. I was just poking around with what I thought was a fun idea.