I bought Cindy a 3ds for Christmas a couple years ago. She barely if at all played it until the other day. I bought her sonic and animal crossing. She told me animal crossing was too hard and she never touched it. Now I come home from work yesterday and shes playing animal crossing non-stop since then. She said shes willing to try PC games next. Perfect.

I don't want to build a PC for her just yet. So heres the question

What program can I use to turn my pc into two pcs. I was eyeballing VirtualBox cause its free.

Has anyone had any experience with virtual pcs.

Animal crossing too hard? rofl

Anything needing real graphics will run like shit in a VM unless you setup gpu passthrough for it. That would need a linux host & spare gpu as far as I know. Might be able to run some shitty older pc games in a standard virtualbox VM though. (last I used it, virtualbox only had access to 128MB of video memory)

If you wanna virtualize, I recommend starting from scratch with a Linux host and two Windows VMs: One for you and one for Cindy. LinusTechTips has done a few videos on setting up unRAID for such a purpose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJYMCbIbPk

More unRAID videos by LTT:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LinusTechTips/search?query=unraid

You definitely need another video card though, like allagor said.

So no non-linux routes? Ill pay $100 for software that can do it. Not gonna be playing too fancy. Vanilla WoW, P99, and ET

allagor wrote (View Post): › Animal crossing too hard?

She didnt even attempt to try to figure it out. Now shes playing it nonstop. obviously its not hard one bit

Have her play league of legends and the sims and you're set

Those games are all old, so they might run alright in virtualbox. It's worth a shot before trying anything else, since it's free & easy to setup.

Venom wrote (View Post): › So no non-linux routes? Ill pay $100 for software that can do it. Not gonna be playing too fancy. Vanilla WoW, P99, and ET

What's wrong with using Linux for your host? It's not like you'll be using it yourself, you'll be on a Windows 10 VM so you won't even notice a difference. But anyway, you could use Windows as your host if you use something like Hyper-V I suppose. But you still need two GPUs (integrated or otherwise) and two Windows VMs running under it, so that you each can get a set of input devices and video outs.

allagor wrote (View Post): › Those games are all old, so they might run alright in virtualbox. It's worth a shot before trying anything else, since it's free & easy to setup.

I'm not too familiar with VirtualBox but will he be able to use it as two separate, simultaneous PCs? I would imagine he'd need to run both OS's in a VM, no?

Cindy is already better than Flo.

I guess ill try Virtualbox and see how that goes. Then just build her a pc

workstation for windows vmware perhaps. that allows you to set your hardware for whats actually in the box.

Venom wrote (View Post): › I guess ill try Virtualbox and see how that goes. Then just build her a pc

Not sure if you got this sorted out or not -- but I've used virtual box plenty of times and would recommend installing it on your windows machine. Then just have a single Windows VM just for Cindy.

If you need help setting it up, I can help.