Hi, I just learned about unRAID and have a question if it's possible to do this. I've done some searching and can't seem to find the answer so I thought i'd just ask.

I want to have several VMs on the same machine but be able to access them through a single monitor and just be able to switch between them. Is this possible? The setups i've seen so far each VM has a dedicated monitor. Thank you very much

Yes it's possible, but if you wanted the VMs to all use the same GPU you would need to shut one down before starting another. The alternative is to have multiple GPUs, one for each VM plugged into different inputs on the monitor.

 

Or if you don't need full GPU performance you can just access the VMs via VNC.

2 minutes ago, NeoDude said:

Yes it's possible, but if you wanted the VMs to all use the same GPU you would need to shut one down before starting another. The alternative is to have multiple GPUs, one for each VM plugged into different inputs on the monitor.

 

Or if you don't need full GPU performance you can just access the VMs via VNC.

 

Yeah, I want them running at he same time and was thinking of it like a KVM flipping between them type situation. I had not thought about just remote accessing them, thanks!! I'm not doing any gaming or anything graphics intensive, would I still need to get a decent GFX card if I was just using VNC or teamviewer or something to access the headless VMs? Thanks for the reply

Same setup as me pretty much then. I have a GPU passed through to my Win10 VM which I use for gaming. I also have a Ubuntu and OSX VM that I access via VNC. Unless you're gaming on one of the VMs any GPU would do the trick

Edited August 3, 20178 yr by NeoDude
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thanks!

I actually run my VMs without any GPU being passed through to them as I am not using them for gaming or streaming video.   I use RDP for the Windows VMs and VNC for the others.  I could use VNC for all of them but get better performance in Windows with RDP.