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

Kevin Ross kevin at familyross.net
Mon Jan 11 22:55:34 UTC 2010


> From: Kenni Lund
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 2:43 PM
> 
> 2010/1/11 greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org>:
> 
> > The issue you need to consider is what are the tuners. KVM only supports
USB
> > 1.x which could (pretty sure it is iirc) be an issue for HD-PVR (1212)
for
> > HD.
> 
> I suppose you can overcome this by adding a $20 USB controller card
> and use PCI passthrough to dedicate all of these USB ports to a
> virtual machine. I haven't tried it though.

The onboard USB is just an "internal" PCI device, right?  So you could use
PCI passthrough for the onboard USB controller.  In theory.  I've never
tried it myself.

-- Kevin




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