[mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV

[James Dastrup]

On Monday 06 February 2006 2:50 pm, Ted Rathkopf wrote:
> Arrr, Mercury Morris <mercury.morris at gmail.com>
> What ye be sayin'?
>
> > On 2/6/06, Tim <news at timandnoelle.com> wrote:
> >> would it be possible to run mythtv through vmware?  if so, you
> >> could potentially be running mythtv on your windows box.  am i
> >> thinking about this
> >> right?  has anyone ever tried this?  anyway, vmware is offering
> >> their vmware
> >> server and player software free.
> >>
> >> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
> >>
> >> i guess colinux is similar.
> >>
> >> http://www.colinux.org/
> >
> > "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.
> >
> > But who knows?  I may be completely wrong.  Anyone else see it
> > differently?
>
> As a backend, you'd probably run into some difficulties, but I
> would think vmware would be an excellent way to run a full featured
> frontend on your desktop.

I would doubt the VMware video drivers are capable of displaying a 
good quality video. Maybe SD would work, but I can't imagine it 
playing HD at all. I have several VMware sessions running; if I get a 
chance I'll try it soon and let y'all know.