[mythtv-users] Myth in a Virtual Machine

Per Åge Sørvik peraage at leneogperaage.com
Wed Oct 8 23:52:13 EDT 2003


Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 02:39 US/Pacific, Per Åge Sørvik wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>> Works in VM Ware, but you want a pretty fast machine, preferably dual 
>> CPUs.
>
>
> Please clarify this. Are you saying you have the backend running in a 
> virtual machine, performing video capture and everything, or do you 
> have just a remote frontend in the virtual machine?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, you cannot run the backend in a virtual 
> machine, because it doesn't have the direct access to the tuner that 
> it needs.

Uhh, sorry, thought that was what the question was about, my bad. Only 
the frontend - mythtv, mythmusic, mythweather. This was with Mandrake 
9.1 MythTV 0.9 on a dual Athlon MP 2GHz.

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peraage



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