[mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV

[Francesco Peeters]

On Mon, February 6, 2006 23:04, James Dastrup said:
> 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.

Isn't this what winmyth is intended to address?...  ;-)

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