[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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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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