VMware Fusion multiple users at same time

Question

I have a client who wants to make it possible for multiple users to log into his virtual windows machine on his mac simultaneously, but whenever another user logs in, it boots off the current user.

So to clarify, on his mac he has vmware installed so that he can have Quickbooks et al installed and other windows apps.

However, he has users in various locations that need to access that particular instance of Windows ON his mac. So, they use VMWare fusion to log directly into this instance remotely, but apparently he needs different people to log into the instance at the same time and when one tries to login while another user is on, they get bumped off.

Is this even possible and if so, is there a particular way to do it?

Answer 1

Not in the way you're trying to do it now. How can many people control the same mouse cursor? It would not work.

The only way this would work, is if everyone uses Remote Desktop to log into their own desktop environment. For this to work, you actually do need a Terminal Server edition of Remote Desktop, which comes with a Server version of windows, or additional third party software.

I am aware of a hack for remote desktop for desktop versions of windows which can allow multiple users to RDP into the same machine without logging others out, but its not the preferred way, especially not in a business environment.