Posts by mellowraven26

Jacob Foster11 said:Well, that’s a whole different beast. I don't think that's going to fly, at least not if you're looking at more than just one machine. If you have other devices on the network, someone could easily hop on via Remote Desktop or something similar and start doing their own thing. But as it stands, I don't see it working like that.

To start with, you're generally limited to a single mouse and keyboard setup being active at once. You might be able to plug in more, but they won't function as independent inputs. It's a bit like trying to drive two cars with one steering wheel; you can have the extra hardware there, but you aren't actually getting two separate streams of control.

got it, thanks

Jacob Foster11 said:How could I not? It’s pretty straightforward—you just fire up a browser in a virtual machine while handling your other tasks on the host OS. I don't see where the bottleneck is.

I can't quite recall which thread I mentioned this in, but I was saying that my wife can surf the web on one screen while I handle something else entirely on the other; I've got a dual-monitor setup and all the hardware necessary to make that kind of workflow seamless.

Does anyone know if there's a way to multitask effectively between two environments? Specifically, I'm looking to browse the web within a Windows Guest while simultaneously handling some heavy lifting in Excel or Dreamweaver on my main host machine.