Is it doable? two input/output suit but one CPU box

Hi,

I have two monitors, two USB keyboards, two USB mouses. What I want to
do is, use one monitor, one USB keyboard, one USB mouse to regular
work in Linux(with X server). And I want to install a vmware, runs
another Linux in that vmware, this vmware window should be appeard in
another monitor, use the input from another keyboard, another mice.

Is it possible without interference with two machine?

What I can think out is use two X servers, to run vmware in another X
server. But is the X server support choosing input from a USB port?

Can it be done with only one X server? I think the hard part is how to
make the input device dedicated for only one machine.

Thanks.
Bin

Bin Chen wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have two monitors, two USB keyboards, two USB mouses. What I want to
> do is, use one monitor, one USB keyboard, one USB mouse to regular
> work in Linux(with X server). And I want to install a vmware, runs
> another Linux in that vmware, this vmware window should be appeard in
> another monitor, use the input from another keyboard, another mice.
>[/color]
Do you have four hands?

Why not share the keyboard and mouse?

--
Ian Collins.

Bin Chen wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have two monitors, two USB keyboards, two USB mouses. What I want to
> do is, use one monitor, one USB keyboard, one USB mouse to regular
> work in Linux(with X server). And I want to install a vmware, runs
> another Linux in that vmware, this vmware window should be appeard in
> another monitor, use the input from another keyboard, another mice.
>
> Is it possible without interference with two machine?
>
> What I can think out is use two X servers, to run vmware in another X
> server. But is the X server support choosing input from a USB port?
>
> Can it be done with only one X server? I think the hard part is how to
> make the input device dedicated for only one machine.[/color]

Look for "multi-seat" systems. They do exactly that.

See, eg. [url]http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html[/url]

--
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Josef Möllers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize (T. Pratchett)
Company Details: [url]http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/imprint.html[/url]

On Aug 14, 5:41*pm, Josef Moellers <josef.moell...@fujitsu-
siemens.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Bin Chen wrote:[color=green]
> > Hi,[/color]
>[color=green]
> > I have two monitors, two USB keyboards, two USB mouses. What I want to
> > do is, use one monitor, one USB keyboard, one USB mouse to regular
> > work in Linux(with X server). And I want to install a vmware, runs
> > another Linux in that vmware, this vmware window should be appeard in
> > another monitor, use the input from another keyboard, another mice.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > Is it possible without interference with two machine?[/color]
>[color=green]
> > What I can think out is use two X servers, to run vmware in another X
> > server. But is the X server support choosing input from a USB port?[/color]
>[color=green]
> > Can it be done with only one X server? I think the hard part is how to
> > make the input device dedicated for only one machine.[/color]
>
> Look for "multi-seat" systems. They do exactly that.
>
> See, eg.[url]http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html[/url]
>
> --
> These are my personal views and not those of Fujitsu Siemens Computers!
> Josef Möllers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
> * * * * If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize (T.. *Pratchett)
> Company Details:[url]http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/imprint.html[/url][/color]

Oh yes, it is what i want!!

Thanks.

Josef Moellers wrote:
[color=blue]
> Look for "multi-seat" systems. They do exactly that.
>
> See, eg. [url]http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html[/url][/color]

Great resource. Thanks!