<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:42 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 greg pryzby <<a href="mailto:greg@pryzby.org">greg@pryzby.org</a>>:<br>
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> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Kenni Lund <<a href="mailto:kenni@kelu.dk">kenni@kelu.dk</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> 2010/1/11 Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <<a href="mailto:jeppe@ingolfs.dk">jeppe@ingolfs.dk</a>>:<br>
>> > 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>
<br></blockquote><div><br><SNIP><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;">
>> 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>
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> KVM works as does VMware.<br>
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Cool :)<br>
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> The issue you need to consider is what are the tuners. KVM only supports USB<br>
> 1.x which could (pretty sure it is iirc) be an issue for HD-PVR (1212) for<br>
> HD.<br>
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I suppose you can overcome this by adding a $20 USB controller card<br>
and use PCI passthrough to dedicate all of these USB ports to a<br>
virtual machine. I haven't tried it though.<br clear="all"><br></blockquote></div><br>Hadn't thought of that.... I have something to try when I get home ;)<br><br>Oh, and you don't need i7, an old machine works just fine for VMware. You will like the new CPU performance for KVM though<br>
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