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Based on Hyper-V? Bummer. I use VMware Workstation at work and that’s not going to change.

I could but I won't. What keeps me on VMware if that I can easily expand the vm to use 1 or more monitors. I am not sure if hyperv handles resizing of the window as smooth as VMware the adjust the display settings in the client. Last time i checked hyperv (rdp) just gave me scrollbars. It is probably antitrust concerns that is the reason why Microsoft never has improved the RDP client.

I haven't used HyperV in a while. I rarely connected to VMs via the hyperv console, just for installations or cases where windows wasn't booting properly. I use MSTSC (MS Terminal Services Client). That has supported multimonitor for the 12 or so years I've used it.

Yes, it does support multi monitor no problem. VMware has a couple of buttons in the tools bar that allows you to go from using 1 monitor to 2 or 3. It then adjust the screen resolution inside the guest vm and of course you can go back to one monitor. I believe MSTSC reguires you to start it with a switch /span or something and then you need to close the RDP window and launch it again if you want to add / remove monitors.

I'm trying to think when exactly the GUI was updated. I think somewhere around Vista. You can just check "use all my monitors for the remote session" in the Display tab.

I'll admit that with a triple-monitor setup, I've sometimes wanted to remote in with only a dual-screen setup. So it wasn't perfect for me. It certainly did fine for my 95% use-cases. Having to reconnect to adjust desktop size just was never a big deal for me.

Maybe adjusting sizes is more of an issue for people today. If I was using a laptop and constantly docking/disconnecting external monitors with a large number of active connections, it'd annoy me to have to completely reconnect each time.

For some reason with the 1809 version of Windows, I've been able to run both Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation simultaneously. Never was able to do that before.

Anyway, I eventually switched for docker support, and used this powershell-based tool that converts VMWare workstation VMs to Hyper-V VMs - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=424...

I don’t build the VMs myself, they’re created as part of a CI pipeline. I once tried converting the VMs to VirtualBox while I was waiting for the VMware license—didn’t work.

But maybe it’ll work with 1809, who knows. Don’t have it yet.

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