<p>> USB-based devices work in VMware server (free as in beer) and VMware<br />> workstation (which is not free) but make sure you get VMware Server 2.0<br />> (which is beta) or VMware Wkst 6 as you will probably need the USB2.0<br />> (if that even works with media devices).<br />> Does your serial adapter work by bitbanging the handshake lines (like<br />> many IR-transmitters do) and not by sending proper RS232 data I would be<br />> equally worried to get that working, do not expect the VM to keep time<br />> accurate enough for bitbanging.<br />><br />> Consider the option of putting the PVR250 in the physical host machine<br />> with the Master backend as a VM (assuming you are running a linux hosted<br />> VMware server). Another option would be to put the PVR250 in a frontend<br />> (more details of your setup would help)<br />><br />> Its possible to run VMware ESXi (which is also free as in beer) on<br />> whitebox / PC hardware (assuming supported SATA and Network controllers)<br />> but I wouldnt try to get USB or PCI devices to work with that.<br />><br />> Fredrik<br />> - who run a first try here then on real machine Mythdora4 frontend VM<br />> in VMware workstation 5 (with crappy video and no working IR-receiver).</p>
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<p>So the machine is an Intel Quad Core Server, 6 gigs of RAM, running VMWare Workstation 6, with the three capture cards in it. I'm currently running the backend on the host machine. Since I "play" alot, I'd like to move the backend into a VM session like I have done with my mail and web servers so that I can mess with them and restore very easily. I'm not sure how the RS232 cable works, I just made it to spec and use the standard directv.pl script for RCA receivers.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure what you mean by putting the PVR250 in the host machine with the master backend running in a VM. How would it access the PVR250? A slave backend running on the host?</p>
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<p>A good example of what I'm trying to accomplish is the new functionality to compile in Windows. I got it to compile in an XP VM for testing, but I don't want to convert my package installed backend to a SVN version and have to rollback after the fact with the DB/etc. If it was a VM, I could just copy the VMX's somewhere else temporarily. I do stuff like this all the time, so the VM would make things easier.</p>
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<pre>Thanks,<br />Ben</pre>
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