I need to view multiple sources on one monitor at the same time (nto KVM). HELP ME!

[cyberhh]

I need to display multiple PC screens on one monitor (projector) all at the same time, what device can I use?

I want to be able to connect 4 PC's to one projector input and "slice" the output so that all 4 are displayed at the same time in one quarter of the screen.

Please help me out.

[confus-ed]

Any reason you can't just generate all 4 screens on the one pc ? Would seem a lot simpler & without thinking about it, at a flying guess much cheaper too ..!?!?

[cyberhh]

I could always do that, but as a last resort. The processes/applications I run on the different PC's would be difficult to run from one PC and remote console software will not do it (low screen resolution / no DirectX)

[silencio]

I personally haven't seen anything that will do this with vga connectors. I've seen video camera setups like this but they're all rca connectors...

[kato2274]

Originally posted by silencio
I personally haven't seen anything that will do this with vga connectors. I've seen video camera setups like this but they're all rca connectors...

I suspect that it'd have to be a hardware software solution. a hardware box like a kvm to accept the vga connections and software running that would divide the display up into virtual monitors and display the contents.

It'd be a pretty cool little product.

[PeLiGrOsO]

time to go to radio shack and see what you can find..

[confus-ed]

Originally posted by cyberhh
I could always do that, but as a last resort. The processes/applications I run on the different PC's would be difficult to run from one PC and remote console software will not do it (low screen resolution / no DirectX)

VMware

Virtual operating system software ... run as many copies of any or even different operating systems as you like, at once ...

Here's a screen shot .


so you can definately do want you want with it ... I've had I think 6 lots of operating systems running concurrently (there must be a limit to how many but I don't know ....)

My 'most impressed with' software

[PeLiGrOsO]

VM WARE kicks a$$.. i love that program, just make sure you have plenty of hdd space and sufficient ram to run multiple OSes at the same time.

[cyberhh]

using vmware i cannot play games and my cpu is sliced.

[Radical Dreamer]

Originally posted by PeLiGrOsO
VM WARE kicks a$$.. i love that program, just make sure you have plenty of hdd space and sufficient ram to run multiple OSes at the same time.

Have you guys tried virtual pc from connectix? How does it compare to VMware? I use virtual pc, thats why I ask.

[confus-ed]

Review: VMWare Workstation 3.1 vs Virtual PC 4.3.2 vs Bochs 1.4

The three market leaders compared. I'll go read it now so I know too

using vmware i cannot play games and my cpu is sliced

I bet if you use the base with linux you can get 4 lots of quake going ... some body try it for me ...