<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Daniels</b> <<a href="mailto:steve.p.daniels@googlemail.com">steve.p.daniels@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">----- Original Message -----<br>From: "James Dastrup" <<a href="mailto:jc@dastrup.com">jc@dastrup.com
</a>><br>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:13 AM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV
<br><br><br>On Monday 06 February 2006 5:03 pm, Steve Daniels wrote:<br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>> From: "Tim" <<a href="mailto:news@timandnoelle.com">news@timandnoelle.com</a>><br>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <
<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 8:39 PM<br>> Subject: [mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV<br>><br>><br>> would it be possible to run mythtv through vmware? if so, you
<br>> could potentially be running mythtv on your windows box. am i<br>> thinking about this right? has anyone ever tried this? anyway,<br>> vmware is offering their vmware server and player software free.<br>
><br>> <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/server/">http://www.vmware.com/products/server/</a><br>><br>> i guess colinux is similar.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.colinux.org/">http://www.colinux.org/
</a><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>><br>> It works absolutely perfect as a frontend machine!!!<br>><br>> Just ignore all the people that say it wouldn't be able to ;-)<br>>
<br><br>"absoultely perfect"? Even HDTV playback?<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>If I had an HD content to throw at it, I'd be more welcome to try, but since<br>it probably takes less than half an hour to set up a VMWare mythfrontend,
<br>you'd think more people would bother to try it.<br><br>Step 1. Install VMWare<br>Step 2. Creat a new Virtual Machine<br>Step 3. Attach a knoppmyth iso to the virtual cdrom on the machine.<br>Step 4. Press power on.<br>
Step 5. Have fun.<br><br>Anyone with HD like to give it ago?<br><br>Or tell me how to "simulate" HD?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Steve<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<div>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.</div>
<div><br>Thanks,<br>Adam</div>