[mythtv-users] VMWare on the backend. Viable solution?

[Johnny]

> Another consideration is trans-coding in a guest. I had not done this until
> recently and I'm finding that transcoding h.264 for say commercial skip and
> mp4 conversion is a bit taxing on the guest. So I may create a slave or two
> just to offload those tasks into another guest and thus better utilize my
> cores.

That is a good point. How come you can't just give more cores to a
guest? Spinning up another guest OS just to get some more cores seems
like a waste of resources. I have only ever played with VMWare
Workstation and VirtualBox and both of those let you assign multiple
cores to a guest.