[mythtv-users] VMWare and MythTV

[Lonnie Borntreger]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:27 -0600, Adam Blomfield wrote:


> Are there any tricks to making this work? I installed VMware server on
> my notebook (Pentium M 1.8Ghz with 1GB RAM) this afternoon and loaded
> up FC4 and MythTV in a virtual machine. I got everything working but
> the video was *VERY* choppy. I thought it might have been the 802.11g
> at first, but even hardwiring didn't fix it. I installed the VMware
> tools to get the correct video driver, but still no improvement. All
> suggestions are appreciated.

My dual Athlon 1700+ with 1.5G RAM doesn't even have the horsepower to
run just the frontend smoothly in VMware (I made sure that all other
processes - MySQL, apache, mythbackend, etc. were not running).  VMware
just takes a lot of horsepower to run.

Lonnie Borntreger