[mythtv-users] Myth in a Virtual Machine
Jarod C. Wilson
jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Oct 2 18:49:31 EDT 2003
On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 16:46 US/Pacific, Michael Starks wrote:
> I've been pondering running Myth in a Virtual PC. Has anyone done
> this with
> either Virtual PC or VM Ware? I'm not sure if it would work or not,
> particularly given some of the things I've read about video drivers in
> virtual machines.
You MIGHT be able to run a remote frontend in either VPC or VMware,
though I'm dubious that it would be fast enough. You definitely CAN NOT
do video capture (the mythbackend part) in a virtual machine, since the
virtual machine has no access to the video capture hardware.
--Jarod
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