[mythtv-users] Myth TV BE on VM Ware?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 17:17:16 UTC 2006


On 12/28/06, Bill Arlofski <waa-mythtv at revpol.com> wrote:
> Graham Milne wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I've been watching the posts on this discussion lists for a while.  It is
> > good to see such a layer of support from the community.  Here's my dilemma.
> > I have a nice shiny new computer which I would love to make into a MythTV
> > BE:
> >
> > Intel Core 2 Duo, 6400
> > 2G 6400 DDR2 Corsair
> > 3X 250 GB SATA-2 set up in RAID 0
> > ICH8R
> > 2X PVR-150
> >
> > My dilemma is that I can't dedicate this machine to Linux.  As much as I'd
> > love to, Linux just can't run a few of the programs that I need to run for
> > work.  So I'm stuck with WinXP Pro SP2.  My thought was that maybe I could
> > use VM Ware to host a Linux subsystem to support MythTV BE.  In theory,
> > this
> > should work.  My concern is that VM Ware will not recognize the tuner cards
> > and make them available to the hosted Linux.  Has anyone out there tried
> > this?  I have a copy of the new VM Ware 6 Beta which I plan on testing
> > with.
> > I searched the how-to's, and Google.  Google came up with a bunch of hits,
> > but all of them were talking about Myth FE.  I'm planning a separate "low
> > power" box for the front end. (Celeron with 512MB of RAM and nVidia 6600,
> > running native Linux).
> >
> > Any ideas would be great.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Graham.
>
>
> Hi Graham,
>
This may actually be possible with xen if your processor has the Intel
VT.  See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen

John


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