[mythtv-users] MythTV under VMWare?

Ivor Hewitt ivor at ivor.org
Tue Jan 20 02:22:22 EST 2004


On Tuesday 20 January 2004 04:30, Scott Pouliot wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried to run a MythTV front end under VMWare Workstation
> (Virtual machine running under Windows)?  Not really concerned about a back
> end, but it would be pretty cool to be able to watch videos from my Windows
> box without having to copy them from the Myth backend.  Someone mentioned
> wlan and streaming.....but I haven't looked into that option at all.  A
> friend of mine uses VMWare for a bunch of stuff so he had me download the
> trial to check it out and a light bulb lit up in my head  ;-)
>

You might want to have a play with Ian Calfield's Myth/Cygwin patch that went 
to the dev list yesterday. I haven't had time to play with it yet. Looks like 
fun though.

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