<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Kenni Lund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenni@kelu.dk">kenni@kelu.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2010/1/11 Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <<a href="mailto:jeppe@ingolfs.dk">jeppe@ingolfs.dk</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Martin Ravell<br>
> <<a href="mailto:martin.ravell@rave-tech.com.au">martin.ravell@rave-tech.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
>> What do you think? Is VMWare with MythBackend on a (probably Fedora or<br>
>> CentOS) virtual machine a viable option? I may add some more front-ends as<br>
>> well but at this stage it will be one of each.<br>
><br>
> Performance wise it should be fine, but I don't think you can use your<br>
> TV card in the VM?<br>
><br>
> AFAIK, Xen is the only virtualization technology that allows pci pass<br>
> through. I've been using this successfully with both a PVR 250 and now<br>
> a Nova-T 500<br>
<br>
</div>Since it's a Core i7 CPU, there's a good possibility that you'll have<br>
a VT-d capable chipset, which will allow hardware-supported<br>
passthrough of PCI and PCI-express devices in KVM [1] or Xen [2] (or<br>
Vmware if you really want to use such things ;)).<br></blockquote><div><br>KVM works as does VMware. <br><br>The issue you need to consider is what are the tuners. KVM only supports USB 1.x which could (pretty sure it is iirc) be an issue for HD-PVR (1212) for HD.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've just upgraded my motherboard in order to try this out with KVM,<br>
MythTV and my three tuners. I hope I can get it working, so I can run<br>
some clean enterprise Linux on the bare metal (eg. CentOS) for<br>
stability, and then use a more bleeding edge Linux distribution for<br>
MythTV (eg. MythBuntu or Arch Linux) - I'm tired of debugging my<br>
headless backend by RS232 every time it doesn't boot after a full<br>
system update.<br></blockquote><div><br>There are advantages and it works. <br></div></div><br>-- <br>greg pryzby greg at pryzby dot org<br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gpryzby">http://www.linkedin.com/in/gpryzby</a><br>
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