[mythtv-users] Virtualized MythTV?

Ronald Frazier ron at ronfrazier.net
Fri May 2 14:05:13 UTC 2008


>  The big problem is getting the capture card into the guest. I have
>  heard some users doing this with ivtv and xen but there were some
>  problems. I do not think that vmware has the ability of making real
>  hardware visible to a guest.

First, a hdhomerun is just a network device, so if you only need atsc,
that would work.

Also, I don't know about vmware, but the non-open (but still free for
personal use) version of virtualbox allows usb passthrough to the
guest OS, so any usb tuners should work perfectly.

-- 
Ron


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