Outputting virtual PC display to a TV

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My boss has asked me to come up with a solution for the following:
We have a virtual PC which will be running a ticket monitoring system which we hope to hook up to a TV so we can all see how many tickets are new/in progress/due etc.

Now i'd have no problem running this app on a PC and hooking the TV up to that but the boss doesn't want another device that's turned on 24/7. It's going to be running on ESX.

It seems that we're going to have to output the video over Ethernet and then convert it at the TV side if it's even possible. I've heard of VGA->Ethernet->VGA, but never skipping the first step.

Does anyone know of any programs or solutions which will do the above? I'm stumped! My only idea was that if it was running on a Hyper-V host was to have the console showing full screen and just run a long VGA cable to the TV.
 
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Can you output the graphs to a webpage?
you could then just have a smart tv pointing to that webpage?

I've never heard of a way of outputting the console to anything other than a pc i'm afraid.

You suggestion of running a long cable will probably be the easiest :)
 
VMWare doesn't work the way you want it to.
As LizardKing has said, if you can output it to a webpage, a smart TV might do the trick.

Other than that, a low power device like the raspberry pi hooked up via an RDP session is really the only way to pull this off.

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Tell a lie, VMDirectPath might do what you want it to, if your hardware supports it.
 
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LizardKing said:
Can you output the graphs to a webpage?
you could then just have a smart tv pointing to that webpage?

I've never heard of a way of outputting the console to anything other than a pc i'm afraid.

You suggestion of running a long cable will probably be the easiest :)
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Outputting the graphs to a webpage would require re-writing the entire application, something the boss understandably doesn't want to do after he's just completed it.

mrbell1984 said:
VGA > Ethernet > VGA will work brilliantly! You can output it as a second monitor then!
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We know, but the boss doesn't really want to do this... I'm currently looking to the Raspberry Pi option, I guess this runs Linux, what kind of distro's can it run? Ideally it would be a GUI based one as we're not Linux versed in this place :p

Our other option is to have a low-powered PC that uses WOL and a Scheduled Task to shut it down at the end of the day.
 
Look at using a Large Format Display (with a pc built in) to use RDS to connect to the VM. They come in sizes from 32-70inchs (iirc from Samsung)

If you only need a small screen, check out a thin-client type device. You could easily use a TC240 from Samsung (Screen and Thin-Client combined) to connect to the VM.
 
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