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Using VMware Workstation 10 on Windows, I've read "Use Multiple Monitors for One Virtual Machine" and managed to make it work as described when running the machine in Full Screen mode.
What I would love to have is the same behavior for running the VMware guest in "windowed" mode (i.e. non-Full-Screen mode):
Is this possible?
The reason is, that every time I change focus numlock is changed too.
Background
The touchpad software of Dell (I guess it's synaptic) has a so called TouchGuard feature(I think its enabled by default), which prevents using the touchpad mousepointer while typing on the keyboard. It seems, that vmware is calling the numlock key every time I switch. So every time TouchGuard thinks "oh he is typing, mouse has to stop".
My other old VM works, because numlock simply doesn't have to change.
Solutions
Update: Capslock key may obviously also have the same issue.
With some effort I've managed to configure multiple virtual monitors using VMWare Workstation for a Windows 10 guest.
Host:
Guest:
VMWare Virtual Machine Display Settings:
Preparations
Configuration inside the Windows 10 guest machine:
Right-click on the Desktop, select Display settings and set the resolution to 800x600 (simply to better see the additional monitors created in the following steps).
Now you will notice that nothing happens if you click the Detect button under Multiple Displays.
Note: In previous Windows versions you were offered an option "try to connect anyway on: VGA" if the display was not detected.
This might be a bug (or feature) introduced with Windows 10 Version 1703. There is a Microsoft Technet Question providing more information.
However, you can still force this by following the next steps:
displayswitch.exeThis will bring up the Project settings plane. Choose Extend:
Et voilà, now you have two monitors:
And of course you now also see the usual multiple display options in the Display Settings.
In order to add the third monitor, press Detect. This will create a new box labeled Display not detected. You have to click on that box so that it gets highlighted in blue:
Now scroll down to Multiple Displays section and change the selection in the drop-down box from No display detected to the bottom-most entry Try to connect anyway on: VGA:
Repeat this process for additional monitors.
You can also align the monitors to your liking:
Best Answer
It's sort of possible. There's no way to have a separate window on the host for each guest monitor, but you can have one large host window with multiple monitors in the guest.