[mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV

[James Dastrup]

On Monday 06 February 2006 3:19 pm, Francesco Peeters wrote:
> On Mon, February 6, 2006 23:04, James Dastrup said:
> > On Monday 06 February 2006 2:50 pm, Ted Rathkopf wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > I would doubt the VMware video drivers are capable of displaying
> > a good quality video. Maybe SD would work, but I can't imagine it
> > playing HD at all. I have several VMware sessions running; if I
> > get a chance I'll try it soon and let y'all know.
>
> Isn't this what winmyth is intended to address?...  ;-)

Possibly, but it's in no way a full-featured frontend, and my 
experience with it is it's way underdeveloped, and therefore full of 
bugs and lacks features. I wish it did work, because I do have 
several windows machines still around.

BTW, if you haven't heard, VMware is now offering it's GSX version for 
free, starting today.