MP 1,1-5,1 Virtualising: Host / Guest combinations (multiple displays)

[mattspace]

Hi Folks,

Just wondering if anyone happens to know a solution to getting virtualising working - eg running older (32 bit) macOS apps on newer systems, when the following conditions are required:

• multiple displays on Host, and Guest
• Displays are set to use a single space for all displays (one menubar only on the main display) on Host & Guest
• Guest preferably runs as a Space.

So I have a triple-display system, with a single space, so just one menubar on the centre display (single space is so I can span things across displays). What I'd like to be able to do is launch a VM, have the system open it in a dedicated space, where it looks for all intents & purposes like it's just running on the hardware normally, with the same 3 screens and single space / single menubar.

Parallels' documentation reads like you need to enable each display has a separate space, VMWare Fusion doesn't seem to be available to buy in pre-Catalina-friendly version 11 any more (anyone know more about that?), and VirtualBox... It's hard to find documentation not written form the perspective of significant pre-existing knowledge of Virtualising in general.

Or, is the solution something like Parallels Coherence mode (IIRC) where the virtualised stuff isn't boxed away in a separate space, but just lives visually intertwined with the host OS?

Thoughts?

 

[startergo]

I use Linux in parallels. I mainly use it for compiling with GNU-EFI. When I enable sharing of all drives I actually select a shared folder and perform the compilation directly. It works as if I entered the folder from the main OS and performed the compile process directly.