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

Travis Tabbal travis at tabbal.net
Mon Jan 11 19:16:18 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com> wrote:

> I ran two backends under Xen for over a year with PCI pass-through.  Both
> the primary and slave backends had a PVR-250 card assigned to them.  I had
> no problems at all.  When I switched to my HD-PVR, I made a new backend for
> it and "tossed" my Xen VM's.
>
> Gerald
>
>

I'm running my BE under Xen as well. Mythbuntu 9.10 Myth .22. I'm not using
PCI passthrough, the tuner is an HDHR. That works well for me as the server
is running OpenSolaris and their Xen doesn't do PCI passthrough.  Somewhat
irritating, but after using ZFS for a while, well worth the trade-off.
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