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

Martin Ravell martin.ravell at rave-tech.com.au
Wed Jan 13 23:50:37 UTC 2010


>> General consensust is that in order to use my PVR-350 I'd need to use PCI
>> Passthrough.
>>
>> Support for PCI Passthrough is via a capability known as DV-t (at least
on
>> Intel based systems). The boards that I have been looking at (Gigabyte)
do
>> not seem to have this enabled. I have sent an inquiry off to Gigabyte to
>> confirm this and will post any response back to this list.
>
>I've just changed my motherboard in my "old" Core 2 based system to a
>Gigabyte motherboard. The new motherboard is a Gigabyte EQ45M-S2 with
>Intel Q45 (VT-D capable) chipset. It doesn't say anything about VT-D
>anywhere, but if you click Ctrl+F1 in the BIOS, some advanced settings
>will get activated, including VT-D :-D I've tested it yesterday with a
>PVR-500 card and passthrough worked perfectly!
>
>So if your Gigabyte motherboard uses a VT-D capable chipset, there'll
>be a good chance that you can activate it with Ctrl+F1 in the BIOS.
>
>Best Regards
>Kenni Lund


Sounds promising Kenni.

Does anyone out there happen to have a GA P55A-UD3P and know if this works?


Regards
Maty




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