![]() At home I'll run virtualbox with a fedora vm sometimes but mostly just connect back to the work hypervisors. I only use the laptop when I want to work away from either of my desks. And only to toy around with gui tools on it. Though I do have synergy set up I typically keep that turned off because I rarely ever switch my second screen to the home gentoo box. My setup at home is a windows7 workstation with dual screens and a headless gentoo box that I'll occasionally teamviewer into. When I need to connect to machines' screens that aren't local VMS I use either xfreerdp or mstsc from within one of the VMs or teamviewer when it's a user/client/customer. So with this I can full screen 6 different computer screens if needed and easily toggle between them with alt-scrollwheel|. I use dual screens with 3 virtual desktops e17(yea I know Im behind) on each screen. Typically I've kept a windows xp and windows 7 vms for testing documentation and some management tools. There are 8 hot swap disk bays that I'll use to move data and store VMs on depending on my task. My main workstation is a gentoo box with 64GB of RAM & E5-2609 v2 running a hypervisor off of a ram drive loaded from a usb disk. Not sure how I managed to use two machines at once years ago. I suddenly have a bunch of extra computers around so I tried setting up a second one and have nagios running on it and I'm watching the screen, but after sitting like this for a couple of days I realized I hardly touch the second machine. With two machines I found that I'd have my email open on one machine, and want to copy and paste into a window on the other machine but that wouldn't necessarily be easily done.ĭoes anyone still use two machines at once. I'm aware of products like synergy but there are downsides to using them. With more memory and virtuzliation to run multiple OSes, it's actually less awkward since I can use a single keyboard/mouse between two monitors. ![]() Then laptops got powerful enough that my jobs stopped getting people a desktop and a laptop and I've gotten by with just a laptop for years now. Often one of the machines was a desktop and the other was a laptop docked with a monitor. Depending on the job it varied, but it might have been a Mac and a Windows machine, or a Linux box and a Windows machine. In the old days, I used to have two computers on my desk.
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