[mythtv-users] Virtual Machines, USB tuners and PCI passthrough

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 23 22:57:56 UTC 2010


On 23 July 2010 18:41, Craig Anderson <craig.anderson0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kenni,
> Thanks for the heads up, may need to rethink it then.
> Is Virtualbox not very elegent?  I realise that I cannot PCI passthrough
> with it but can usb passthrough.
> Craig
>
> On 23 July 2010 02:01, Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote:
>>
>> 2010/7/21 Craig Anderson <craig.anderson0 at gmail.com>:
>> > Is Xen still the best solution? with RH not supporting it any longer and
>> > kvm
>> > seemingly taking over?
>>
>> If you're going to run it on an Atom230, then Xen is your _only_
>> option. KVM requires your CPU to support VT-X to work at all and it
>> requires your chipset to support VT-D in order to do PCI passthrough.
>> Neither is possible with a Atom 230 based machine.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Kenni
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USB passthrough is not provided in the OSE version of Virtualbox.


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