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

jose rubio debian at nc.rr.com
Fri Sep 26 17:37:14 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:51, Wayne Veilleux wrote:
> 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.
> > 

I agree, I'm running vmware because there's still acouple of aplications
that need mswindows but it is not very good for sound or video.  You
would have many problems that no one would be able to help you with.


-jose-



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