Developing on a VPC (virtual desktop)
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| Hey guys, I was unable to find any previous posts about this, so I was hoping someone could let me know if they've done this and any caveats they've discovered in doing so. My current Win 7 pc build is getting slow and unwieldy, on top of the fact that it's also my gaming pc, and frankly I'd like to separate them out since I am on the verge of doing a fresh re-install as I'm upgrading my D: drive to SSD anyway. My plan is to build a game dev environment on a virtual PC (Virtual Box) and running Windows 7. Building to HTML isn't the problem. My questions is as follows: If I was to RDP (remote desktop) into this VPC for doing game dev from any computer/laptop I use, would I be able to do desktop builds that require openGL (ie, desktop windows app). I don't mind if I have to run the build exe on my main desktop PC for testing, but as long as the desktop build will build on the VPC. I plan to run Virtual Box on a Linux Mint machine if that makes any difference.. The other alternative, was to install Virtual Box on each of my machines and run the Win 7 VPC off a USB 3.0 stick. I'm suspecting that would be painfully slow though? |
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