<div style="margin-left: 80px;"><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">No, not if you only need to run Linux. I'm running my backend under Xen<br>with a Nova-T 500 pci card with no problems. While my CPU supports hw<br>
virt, I'm not using it since it has higher overhead and, coincidentally,<br>doesn't support pci passthrough (or at least it didn't in Xen 3.0)<br></div><br>Intersting; however; as you are using a Nova-T500 board I would have thought that you wouldn't need PCI passthrough. One of the strange things about the NovaT500 that I heard was that the board used a standard chip (conexant I seem to recall), but this chip is a USB chip, so they built the board with a PCI to USB host controller chip (Via on most versions, but not all).<br>
<br>So couldnt you use USB passthrough to hook into the tuners without PCI passthoug??<br><br>sorry, just a thought I've not tried it! <br>R<br><br>