[mythtv-users] VMWare on the backend. Viable solution?

Jeppe Nejsum Madsen jeppe at ingolfs.dk
Mon Jan 11 12:09:23 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Martin Ravell
<martin.ravell at rave-tech.com.au> wrote:
> What do you think? Is VMWare with MythBackend on a (probably Fedora or
> CentOS) virtual machine a viable option? I may add some more front-ends as
> well but at this stage it will be one of each.

Performance wise it should be fine, but I don't think you can use your
TV card in the VM?

AFAIK, Xen is the only virtualization technology that allows pci pass
through. I've been using this successfully with both a PVR 250 and now
a Nova-T 500

/Jeppe


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