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Obsolete Releases => SME 7.x Contribs => Topic started by: imcintyre on July 22, 2008, 01:24:21 AM
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Has anyone tried to run mythtv front/back end (mythbuntu) and sme server on vmware? I'm trying to cut down on the number of computers that are running. I have my home server which is very lightly txed, a test server, and now a mythbuntu set up. Invariably these get left on all the time and I'd like to cut back somewhat.
I have seen the myth back end install but as I said above I would like to use vmware to cut back on the number of pc's running all the time. The test server is already running sme 7.3 with vmware and a couple of virtual servers on it.
I was thinking of the following;
modem
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box with vmware on top of smeserver
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virtual smeserver Mythbuntu
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wireless router T.V.
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LAN
Any encouragement/discouragement is welcome. Thanks in advance
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Depends on your tuners. IIRC, VMWare won't give you access to PCI tuners on the host machine. USB tuners should be O.K.
I remember seeing a post by Duncan about getting mythbackend to run on SMEServer. It involved installing 2 X libraries as dependencies. Do a search, it might be a solution without using VMWare.
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Depends on your tuners. IIRC, VMWare won't give you access to PCI tuners on the host machine. USB tuners should be O.K.
I remember seeing a post by Duncan about getting mythbackend to run on SMEServer. It involved installing 2 X libraries as dependencies. Do a search, it might be a solution without using VMWare.
Instructions are in the wiki, hardware cards can not be accessed in a virtual environment (not in VMWare AFAIK).
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Instructions are in the wiki, hardware cards can not be accessed in a virtual environment (not in VMWare AFAIK).
USB DVB-[T|S|C] sticks should be O.K., since you can attach them to the VM. VMWare has had USB2 support for a while now.
I have a Compro VideoMate U300 I can try to get working on a VM. I'll give it a shot and post back to let you know.
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That would be great, I was just about to buy a pci tuner but this changes things somewhat. Knowing that a usb tuner would work would be invaluable.
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O.K. I thought I'd cheat and just get the U300 working in a Windows XP VM first. XP sees the U300, but when I try to install the drivers, the installer just freezes copying the mod7700.sys file. I'll give Knoppmyth a try tonight and report back.
I really want this to work so I can have a virtual MythTV environment to test new KnoppMyth releases. Up until now I've had to use fake tuners to test functionality.
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Success!!
I've got the U300 working in a KnoppMyth VM!
It recognised tuner, scanned the transports and detected the channels and I can watch live TV.
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congratulations!
what are you using for sound/graphics cards?
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Well........
This was just a Proof-Of-Concept to see if it could be done. I said I can watch live TV, but I didn't say it was pretty!!!!!
As the OP stated, he just wants to run a backend, so sound and video shouldn't be an issue.
Having said that, If I run the VM fullscreen, it is watchable. VMWare passes audio through to the default wave device via DirectX (I'm testing this on a WinXP machine) and with the VMWare video drivers installed on the VM via VMWare-Tools, video is fairly good when in full screen. I only tested SD resolution though, as my test machine only has a 15" LCD monitor (1024x768).
I'm off to get some sleep now......