<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Ive used the vmware workstation products (none of the servers) and others (vbox) but in general I dont believe any virtual machine product by any company including vmware has supported firewire passthrough.<br><br>if the host os does support firewire then I think you could create some communication interface over a network if you have the background do it. What i imagination is a client app/script triggered by myth which sends a channel to the server app that in turn triggers the 6200sh script.<br>Maybe something can be rigged through a terminal client like ssh.<br>Lirc itself has some network capability i believe so it might be able to trigger 6200sh on the host side.<br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial,
helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mark <markhsa@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, September 22, 2011 3:27:03 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] VMWare move. Firewire - ? Need input<br></font><br>
On 09/22/2011 01:20 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:<br>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Mark<<a ymailto="mailto:markhsa@gmail.com" href="mailto:markhsa@gmail.com">markhsa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> I am moving from Hardware to Vmware ESX 5.<br>>> My only concern is channel changing on my Motorola HD DCT-6200<br>>><br>>> I have had years of troublefree firewire ( 6200ch ) channel changing,<br>>> but as far as I can tell, there is no FW1394 access available to guest<br>>> OS on ESX Vmware.<br>> I'm not a vmware expert. Can you use PCI passthrough to get complete<br>> control of the firewire card in the guest OS? Or do you need to share<br>> the firewire controller with another guest OS?<br>><br>> Eric<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></span><br>It would seem from reading that this does not work. Great thought though.<br>I am researching USB channel changing on the DCT6200.<br><br>Let me know if any other thoughts come to mind!<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></div></div>
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