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Based on Hyper-V? Bummer. I use VMware Workstation at work and that’s not going to change.

by fuzzy2 8y ago

ToFab123 8y ago
I could but I won't. What keeps me on VMware if that I can easily expand the vm to use 1 or more monitors. I am not sure if hyperv handles resizing of the window as smooth as VMware the adjust the display settings in the client. Last time i checked hyperv (rdp) just gave me scrollbars. It is probably antitrust concerns that is the reason why Microsoft never has improved the RDP client.
- JaRail 8y ago
  I haven't used HyperV in a while. I rarely connected to VMs via the hyperv console, just for installations or cases where windows wasn't booting properly. I use MSTSC (MS Terminal Services Client). That has supported multimonitor for the 12 or so years I've used it.
  - ToFab123 8y ago
    Yes, it does support multi monitor no problem. VMware has a couple of buttons in the tools bar that allows you to go from using 1 monitor to 2 or 3. It then adjust the screen resolution inside the guest vm and of course you can go back to one monitor. I believe MSTSC reguires you to start it with a switch /span or something and then you need to close the RDP window and launch it again if you want to add / remove monitors.
    - JaRail 8y ago
      I'm trying to think when exactly the GUI was updated. I think somewhere around Vista. You can just check "use all my monitors for the remote session" in the Display tab. I'll admit that with a triple-monitor setup, I've sometimes wanted to remote in with only a dual-screen setup. So it wasn't perfect for me. It certainly did fine for my 95% use-cases. Having to reconnect to adjust desktop size just was never a big deal for me. Maybe adjusting sizes is more of an issue for people today. If I was using a laptop and constantly docking/disconnecting external monitors with a large number of active connections, it'd annoy me to have to completely reconnect each time.
dingle_thunk 8y ago
For some reason with the 1809 version of Windows, I've been able to run both Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation simultaneously. Never was able to do that before. Anyway, I eventually switched for docker support, and used this powershell-based tool that converts VMWare workstation VMs to Hyper-V VMs - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=424...
- fuzzy2 8y ago
  I don’t build the VMs myself, they’re created as part of a CI pipeline. I once tried converting the VMs to VirtualBox while I was waiting for the VMware license—didn’t work. But maybe it’ll work with 1809, who knows. Don’t have it yet.

Based on Hyper-V? Bummer. I use VMware Workstation at work and that’s not going to change.

by fuzzy2 8y ago

Based on Hyper-V? Bummer. I use VMware Workstation at work and that’s not going to change.

I could but I won't. What keeps me on VMware if that I can easily expand the vm to use 1 or more monitors. I am not sure if hyperv handles resizing of the window as smooth as VMware the adjust the display settings in the client. Last time i checked hyperv (rdp) just gave me scrollbars. It is probably antitrust concerns that is the reason why Microsoft never has improved the RDP client.

JaRail 8y ago
I haven't used HyperV in a while. I rarely connected to VMs via the hyperv console, just for installations or cases where windows wasn't booting properly. I use MSTSC (MS Terminal Services Client). That has supported multimonitor for the 12 or so years I've used it.
- ToFab123 8y ago
  Yes, it does support multi monitor no problem. VMware has a couple of buttons in the tools bar that allows you to go from using 1 monitor to 2 or 3. It then adjust the screen resolution inside the guest vm and of course you can go back to one monitor. I believe MSTSC reguires you to start it with a switch /span or something and then you need to close the RDP window and launch it again if you want to add / remove monitors.
  - JaRail 8y ago
    I'm trying to think when exactly the GUI was updated. I think somewhere around Vista. You can just check "use all my monitors for the remote session" in the Display tab. I'll admit that with a triple-monitor setup, I've sometimes wanted to remote in with only a dual-screen setup. So it wasn't perfect for me. It certainly did fine for my 95% use-cases. Having to reconnect to adjust desktop size just was never a big deal for me. Maybe adjusting sizes is more of an issue for people today. If I was using a laptop and constantly docking/disconnecting external monitors with a large number of active connections, it'd annoy me to have to completely reconnect each time.

dingle_thunk 8y ago

For some reason with the 1809 version of Windows, I've been able to run both Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation simultaneously. Never was able to do that before. Anyway, I eventually switched for docker support, and used this powershell-based tool that converts VMWare workstation VMs to Hyper-V VMs - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=424...

fuzzy2 8y ago
I don’t build the VMs myself, they’re created as part of a CI pipeline. I once tried converting the VMs to VirtualBox while I was waiting for the VMware license—didn’t work. But maybe it’ll work with 1809, who knows. Don’t have it yet.