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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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She didnt even attempt to try to figure it out. Now shes playing it nonstop. obviously its not hard one bit
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Have her play league of legends and the sims and you're set
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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.
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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.
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?
Subject: Re: Cindy is starting to game
Cindy is already better than Flo.
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I guess ill try Virtualbox and see how that goes. Then just build her a pc
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workstation for windows vmware perhaps. that allows you to set your hardware for whats actually in the box.
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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. Page 1 of 1
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