[mythtv-users] Ultimate affordable VMWARE 4.0/MythTV box suggestions?

Romel Llarena rdllarena at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 26 08:28:05 EDT 2003


Getting ready to attempt another Myth install. This
time I would like to try to run it on VMWARE 4.0 for
linux. Before I make the investment I was hoping to
query the linux pros out there (my experience is
mostly with NT and 0 experience with VMWARE).

Space and power plugs prevent me from going with
multiple boxes, so I would like to build a box that
can host multiple Linux and NT servers. From my
research VMWARE seems to be the best choice. I decided
to use Linux (either Red Hat or Suse) as the host OS
for vmware as my impression is it has less overhead
than Windows XP.

My questions:
1. Does MythTV even work with VMWARE 4.0? An intial
search lends me to think that the answer is "Yes".
2. Can I run the configuration on an Intel box with a
PVR-150 card?
3. If you had a budget of $500 for the motherboard,
processor, videocard, sound card, and RAM, what would
you buy that's most stable and linux friendly?

Thanks everyone. Anxious to get this started.

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