[mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV

[Michael Fox]

On 2/7/06, Mercury Morris <mercury.morris at gmail.com> wrote:
>  "would it be possible...", Well Yes, but probably No.  If there is a way to
> allow the virtual machine running MythTV to gain access to the Capture Card,
> then that's one high hurdle jumped.  It is quite doubtful that the VMware
> team will ever write code to give control of resources such as a Capture
> Card to the virtual machine.

I wouldn't count this out in time to come, look in the early days of
v1 and v2 of vmware workstation. Your virtual machines couldn't use
the cd/dvd burner on the host machine, it just treated the real drive
as a cdrom only however with now v5.5.1 of workstation I can use my
host DVD burner from within the virtual machine as if the virtual
machine has the drive itself. Works great.

You can also use the serial ports in the virtual machine and usb
devices, so I reckon its only a matter of time before someone
implements the use of PCI cards to the virtual machine.

I'd certainly like to see it happen, as I wouldnt mind attempt to run
a virtual linux box that is doing all the recording from the capture
cards in the host OS machine.