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naa3e5
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What I did was use VMware console on vSphere and then use a VNC Client to login and switch the monitor configuration around. Make sure your VNC client supports multi monitor. I was never able to get vSphere console to display XBMC due to DirectX problems. Once in XBMX you can choose which monitor you want it to work on. Make sure you have the windows configuration in Display properties to set the vid card with HDMI as #1, that makes everything easier and I believe negates having to tell XBMC which monitor as it defaults to monitor #1.
That said I'm not 100% sure the behavior is the same on 5.5 I used 5.0
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2013-12-21, 23:14
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-21, 23:14 by naa3e5.)
Also make sure your HDMI cables are plugged in so Windows knows there is an active display there.
I totally forgot to take a picture of the back of the rack. I'll get around to it this week, as I have off.
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That's great, thanks for that!
Out of interest, did you ever try the setup with Nvidia cards? I think this seems to be my problem, as I borrowed an AMD card off a friend to try, and managed to get it working but still can't do it with my Nvidia. I will try your method though.
Also, are you running XBMC from windows, or are you running Openelec? Reason I ask is that once I'd got my friend's AMD card working with passthrough under Windows, I was unable to do the same with an Openelec XBMC installation.
And may I also ask, how easy was it to get the USB's to work? I had a quick try at this also, but didn't manage to get it working... do I need to install the motherboard drivers into Windows for it to work?
(Sorry to be such a pain, and thanks again for revisiting this thread)
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So to understand the need for the multiple VMs, it's the same machine feeding to different monitors, without using other client devices to access the stored media, correct?
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Ok, I'm almost there.... it seems that the passthrough is now working with AMD cards, but I'm still unable to get it working with Openelec.
Has anyone else here managed to do this with Openelec? I'd prefer not to have to run XMBC under windows anymore.
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naa3e5
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Passthrough only works with AMD. I never tried with OpenElec only Windows. USB works in the same manner , I just used passthrough for the USB busses.
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For the amount of things I've done with PCs, I just never understood VMs at all or the need for them. I think this is starting to make sense to me though for a use like this. Never thought VMs were useful(just didn't get it), but having one PC feed content to multiple TVs.... Wish I had known I could do that. I literally could just build a great PC, put it in the living room, then run 4 HDMI's from that PC to other HDTVs and use VMs for each one right?
Not sure I understand how you would control each VM though. How do you hook a ms/kb or a remote or wahtever to each specific VM? This is all quite interesting.
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You can do it on Linux without VMs too. Maybe you can on windows too, I dunno.
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