This works for LINUX hosts (I use RHEL 3). I have an nVidia NVS 280 video
card (I did have to get the latest LINUX driver updates from nVidia). XF86
(4.3.0-69.EL) is setup with a dual monitor definition in the XF6Config (see
below). The resolution I use is 1280x1024 for both monitors in the host. In
my XP guest I tell it to use 2560x1024, and then I select Full Screen from
the View menu and it fills out both monitors. I'm not sure how this would
work in a Windows host, but possibly similar (dual in the host, then big
single monitor in the guest as Markus indicates). Hope this helps.
Bruce
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA NVS"
Option "TwinView"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP,DFP"
Option "MetaModes"
"1280x1024,1280x1024;1024x768,1024x768;1280x1024,NULL"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-98"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-160"
EndSection
Post by Markus BeckerHi,
Post by Colin SheppardCan a Virtual Machine (on VMWare 4.0 or Virtual PC 2004) have multiple
monitors working (i.e. same continuous desktop across 2 monitors)?
No, it cannot handle 2 monitors because it only "sees" a standard-
SVGA-graphics adaptor (although this is capable of almost *any*
screen resolution you can imagine). So a possible solution _could_
be to "spread" VMWare _on the host_ over two monitors and say
"fit guest to window" (this at least works for a Windows guest).
Markus