[mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV

[Ted Rathkopf]

Arrr, Mercury Morris <mercury.morris at gmail.com>
What ye be sayin'?

> On 2/6/06, Tim <news at timandnoelle.com> wrote:
>>
>> would it be possible to run mythtv through vmware?  if so, you could
>> potentially be running mythtv on your windows box.  am i thinking about
>> this
>> right?  has anyone ever tried this?  anyway, vmware is offering their
>> vmware
>> server and player software free.
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
>>
>> i guess colinux is similar.
>>
>> http://www.colinux.org/
>>
>>
> "would it be possible...", Well Yes, but probably No.  If there is a way to
> allow the virtual machine running MythTV to gain access to the Capture Card,
> then that's one high hurdle jumped.  It is quite doubtful that the VMware
> team will ever write code to give control of resources such as a Capture
> Card to the virtual machine.
>
> But who knows?  I may be completely wrong.  Anyone else see it differently?

As a backend, you'd probably run into some difficulties, but I would
think vmware would be an excellent way to run a full featured frontend
on your desktop.

-- 
Ted Rathkopf