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

[Wayne Veilleux]

I'm currently using VMware 3.1.1 everyday on Linux running mostly 
Microsoft OS and sometimes Linux and FreeBSD. I did not look for new 
feature on VMware 4.0 but I'm pretty sure it won't see any TV tuner 
card. And, if that would be possible, you would need a "monster power 
pc" to have enough power to run that kind of multimedia application. 
VMware is very good for desktop apps like MS-Office but when you try 
to run any multimedia apps (even like an mp3 player) the performance 
is very bad. If it is a $ concern, I suggest to buy a used Athlon XP.

Hope that helped.

-- Wayne

Romel Llarena wrote:
> 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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