[mythtv-users] Virtualized MythTV?

Boleslaw Ciesielski bolek-mythtv at curl.com
Fri May 2 14:01:39 UTC 2008


John Drescher wrote:
> The big problem is getting the capture card into the guest. I have
> heard some users doing this with ivtv and xen but there were some
> problems. I do not think that vmware has the ability of making real
> hardware visible to a guest.

In vmware you can pass through USB devices to the guest so if you had 
external USB tuners, it might work. But the free vmware server only 
supports USB 1.1. vmware server 2.0 which is in public beta right now 
adds support for USB 2.0. Or you can pay for one of their other products.

Bolek


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