Is it possible to make any Online game work in Split Screen mode?

Question

Software and Internet Services

Good evening. There was such an idea. Let's say there is an Online game that does not support split screen, and therefore it cannot be played by two people on the same PC. What if you raise a virtual machine and run copy 2 on it? The PC is powerful enough. And if this is possible, then there are 2 questions. 1) How to configure all this? 2) How to make it so that input from one controller is sent to a regular copy of the game, and from the second - to the VM?

Answer 1

there are two points, if the toy is not resource-demanding, like StarCraft BroodWar, HoMM 3, browser / flash, then VirtualBox will pull through the software video card. If this is a more modern game like WoW, WoT, GTA V, then the video card is stupidly forwarded here, i.e. this solution on Linux and video cards will be required + monitors according to the number of players + 1 pc. integrated, or additional for host operation.
if your game does not support splitting (although it’s worth google, the same La2 and PV were launched without problems in several sessions on one PC), then you will need a PC with several video cards to forward them to the VM, as well as a multi-core processor, a lot of RAM and a motherboard the fee on which it all starts. The mother is the key. How to do it in proxmox, although it is possible in Xen, FreeBSD, ESxi, I already wrote on Habré and posted an article. Microsoft Hyper-V will not solve your problem
https://m.habr.com/ru/post/437598/
if in short you need hardware with virtualization support, if the tests for the motherboard pass, then resources are stupidly cut for each VM, they run different clients. As a result, 1 video card -1 monitor. The keyboard and mouse can also be forwarded directly through the web interface.
however, I want to warn you that some services can ban accounts for such tricks, i.e. for simultaneous entry from one ip from under the VM.