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

Tobias Blomberg blomman at ludd.luth.se
Fri Sep 26 22:48:20 EDT 2003


I'm probably missing something but why don't you just install the MythTV 
backend on the host OS directly ?

/ Tobias


On Friday 26 September 2003 16.28, 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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