[mythtv-users] Hmmmm

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri Jul 2 19:18:53 UTC 2010


On Friday, July 02, 2010 12:44:49 pm Jason Ward wrote:

> 
> Since Mythbyntu describes itself as a stripped down system specifically to
> run MythTV I had assumed it was indeed an appliance distro.
> 
> I keep hearing people say they run their back ends as VM's, how do you do
> that?  I though specialised hardware (like turners) were not avialable
> inside a VM?

I think USB capture devices, or network devices like an HDHR, could be used with a backend running in a VM. PCI card 
tuners might be more of a problem.

The HDHR and the HD-PVR are probably two of the most common Myth capture devices, and they should be usable.





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