[mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV

[Steve Daniels]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lonnie Borntreger" <myth at borntreger.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV


On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:27 -0600, Adam Blomfield wrote:


> Are there any tricks to making this work? I installed VMware server on
> my notebook (Pentium M 1.8Ghz with 1GB RAM) this afternoon and loaded
> up FC4 and MythTV in a virtual machine. I got everything working but
> the video was *VERY* choppy. I thought it might have been the 802.11g
> at first, but even hardwiring didn't fix it. I installed the VMware
> tools to get the correct video driver, but still no improvement. All
> suggestions are appreciated.

My dual Athlon 1700+ with 1.5G RAM doesn't even have the horsepower to
run just the frontend smoothly in VMware (I made sure that all other
processes - MySQL, apache, mythbackend, etc. were not running).  VMware
just takes a lot of horsepower to run.

Lonnie Borntreger
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I've simply got an Athlon 3000+ with 512MB RAM. Just created a virtual
machine, attached a KnoppMyth ISO as a Virtual CD Drive, and it worked..
That's over a wireless connection too.

I'll try again later tonight maybe.

Steve

P.S. Someone asked me if I could provide them with a copy of an installed
KnoppMyth Virtual Machine so they could play it in the player. If I had the
upload space, I'd be happy to oblige.