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Hi guys.

I just wanted to know if its possible to play two games on the virtual pc.Like two os/pc on one computer, each one playing its own game but they are connected so its like a splitscreen.

Any ideas??

I would say yes, that's possible, but your screen sizes will be completely out and you won't have any hardware acceleration (I don't think the virtual machines can access your GPU - I think they use virtual VGA adapters). You also would have problems with input devices. So possible, but in practice, no.

sure it's possible

Screen size as said would have to be low, you could remedy this by using two monitors on your one computer. Also, it will be fairly slow even with a good setup.

If you do it, you would probably be better off using a bridged network (see: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windows_vpc/archive/2009/12/07/networking-in-windows-virtual-pc.aspx)

Acceleration should be possible as I think virtualpc offers such an option. You'll need a graphics card with a good amount of ram to be able to assign ram to each screen.

That said, I don't know if the graphics card can process from two different sources at the same time. I would think it'd be possible, but I don't know to be able to definitively answer. It's one of those things you'll have to try to see. VirtualPC should offer graphics acceleration, so it should be bearable.

USB devices should be no problem, as long as virtualpc allows you to assign certain devices to the virtual machine.

All that said, unless you got a triple or quad core, it's going to be pretty slow. If you do have a triple/quad core or better, than I'd assign at least one seperate core to each virtual machine.

So i talked about this with my cousin and he says that he will try this on his new machine once returns from his training. Gonna post the results. Thank you all.

The thing that would concern me is inputs - like mouse and keyboard. Besides the graphics card problem - but I'm thinking that it's more like playing old games that your interested in - say the first DOS RTS games like Warcraft, Starcraft and CaC. So running 2 copies might not be too much of a stretch. Theres no easy way to use 2 mice, or 2 keyboards... in fact the only thing that you might be able to split up easily is game controllers, because you could set them up to work on seperate instances of the game. 2 installs, 2 control setups, 2 different controllers. As long as the game isn't a memory hog, doesn't use the registry or a central area to store data, and can exist in a multi-tasking environment...

In fact it's sounding less and less likely that you'd find a PC game that ticks all the boxes - I think your best bet is to get this working through emulation, by that I mean an emulated 16-bit game or console game - running alongside another. Like playing Stunt Car Racer multiplayer on the PC, using 2 ST emulators with different controller setups and some network emulation fudgery. Personally I would just make the space for an extra PC, or grab an old laptop that can run some of the games you play. I used to play a lot of Warcraft 1 and Starcraft - I'd drag my laptop to a friends and play on LAN - I would say that is pretty close to the optimal fun verses hassle equation for old multiplayer DOS games.

What if you used Synergy to swap input controls between the two systems?

im surprised no ones mentioned, you cant use full graphics on virtual pc....... unless your using RemoteFX

but I might not be seeing the whole picture here, so just ignore me...

EDIT

sorry im having difficulty using the site cus of a certain aspect

didnt see Jerico2day's comment earlier mentioning the graphics aspect...