Multiple monitors with virtual machines via MaxiVista

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I was recently made aware of a program called MaxiVista (https://www.maxivista.com/). This program allows you to use the monitor of a network connected computer as a secondary monitor on your physical computer. For me the really cool thing about this is that you can use this program on multiple virtual machines and end up with a virtual machine configuration that looks and behaves just like a multi-monitor computer:MaxiVista under Virtual PC

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In order to use the mouse correctly with this sort of configuration you will need to disable the mouse integration feature of Virtual PC / Virtual Server. When you get this working it is really weird - but very cool :-)

Cheers,
Ben