[mythtv-users] Back-end Virtualization

[Andrew Stadt]

On 10/05/2012 9:15 AM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> 2012/5/10 Nathan Hawkins<nateh at thfcom.com>:
>> Is ‘Anyone’ virtualizing their backend?! I cant believe I’m the only person
>> out there who wants to do this… If you are using a VM…please explain how ya
>> have things setup. If you aren’t and you feel inclined to contribute please
>> add what you think the best hardware would be to use to accomplish this
>> goal. Personally I think you have to use 64 Bit USB tuner cards/sticks (w/e
>> ya wanna call em…) and then share the USB resource through the base platform
>> thru to the VM. Its totally theoretical, but I have a WinTV-HVR 950 and I
>> want to give it a go. Does Myth recognize these cards in the base code or do
>> I have to mess around with drivers?
>>
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> Hello,
>
> I've also tried virtualing my backend with kvm, all worked nice untill
> I tried to pass through my hauppauge 150 pci card to the guest.
> My host kernel paniced shortly after I booted the guest and in the
> best case the virt-manager crapped out with a python error.
> Anybody who had more luck with kvm and hauppauge ?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
Actually it was the 150 that did me in as well.

Andrew.