[mythtv-users] Virtualized MythTV?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Saturday 03 May 2008 00:05:13 Ronald Frazier 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.
>
> First, a hdhomerun is just a network device, so if you only need atsc,
> that would work.
>
> Also, I don't know about vmware, but the non-open (but still free for
> personal use) version of virtualbox allows usb passthrough to the
> guest OS, so any usb tuners should work perfectly.

Only USB 1.1, but the VMWare Server 2.0 beta supports USB 2.0

I tried it with VirtualBox and a Windows XP guest - didn't work to well, a lot 
of droputs. Maybe a linux guest would work btter though.


-- 
Lindsay