[mythtv-users] Anyone have any luck running Myth in VMWare?

[Trey Thompson]

On 8/7/07, Jarom McDonald <jarom_mcdonald at byu.edu> wrote:
>
> I have a backend running in a virtual machine at work and it performs
> like a charm; however, it is set up solely as an IPTV recorder (our
> campus delivers all campus cable channels via IPTV), writing the
> programs to a mounted NFS (the gigabit ethernet comes in handy there).
> I've never had luck with getting physical encoding devices working.
>
> Jarom McDonald
>
> Fredrik Hallgarde wrote:
> > scott at tbwifi.ca skrev:
> >> I run a Mandriva 2007 host with Mythtv on the host.  Capture cards are
> not
> >> virtualized.  Run your Windows boxes as virtual machines.
> >>
> >> SFS
> >>
> >
> > As USB is virtualized it would be interesting to know if anyone has
> > managed to get an external capture device to work.
> >
> > Similarly I would be interested in knowing if anyone has a working USB
> > or serial remote receiver that works, I tried an MCE remote with Vmware
> > workstation 5.5 and Mythdora 4.0 but got only garbage when trying to use
> > irw etc.
> >
> > Is anyone running frontend and/or backend in vmware for anything but a
> > test/dev platform?
> >
> > Fredrik
> >
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