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

[bdillahu at peachbush.com]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:48:20PM +0200, Tobias Blomberg wrote:
> I'm probably missing something but why don't you just install the MythTV 
> backend on the host OS directly ?


I agree... I'm in charge of rolling out VMWare on about 2000 desktops at work.
Great product and I think it does well, but if you have Linux as a base (good
choice, as far as I'm concerned), then just run myth there and run your
Windows stuff in VMWare as needed... mind that VMWare can pull a lot of CPU,
and trying to run myth (record a show or something) at the same time you're
banging on VMWare probably would get poor recordings, but...

Bruce

> 
> / 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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