Can TVE3 run in a virtual machine?

[MadDuke]

TV-Server Version: Rev16264
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0 RC3 Rev16261
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Windows Version: Vista Home Premium 64bit
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Hi, im considering the posibillity of running the tv-server in a virtual windows machinen, on a Linux host!
(because I mainly want to use linux as my server, but sadly the TV-server is not designed for that evironment!)

Does anyone have experince with this?

My three main concerns are;

• Whether you can install the tuners-cards in a vitual windows - and whether the TV-server can utilize them!
• Whether there are to high demans on the harddisk's read/write profomance due to the contant access to the timeshift-file! (This might to 'fixed' with the proper config of harddrives in the virtual machine)
• Whether a TV-stream from a virtual machine, will be 'as good as normal' (without loosing frames etc on the client HTPC!)

I hope some of you have some experience in this field, or perhapse just some surgestions!
-if not, i'll do a bit of testing myself!

/MadDuke

[level20peon]

Originally Posted by MadDuke

My three main concerns are;

• Whether you can install the tuners-cards in a vitual windows - and whether the TV-server can utilize them!
• Whether there are to high demans on the harddisk's read/write profomance due to the contant access to the timeshift-file! (This might to 'fixed' with the proper config of harddrives in the virtual machine)
• Whether a TV-stream from a virtual machine, will be 'as good as normal' (without loosing frames etc on the client HTPC!)

I have some experience with VMware but have not tested to run TV-Server in a virtual environment. I think the lack of possibility to have direct access to hardware makes it impossible to use a TV-Card there. The other two points should be not a problem at all if your PC is fast enough. Since I don't have VMware installed on my TV-Server I cannot test the first point atm. Maybe you should give it a shot. I don't know which virtualization software you use at all, maybe yours enables direct hardware access (which I doubt).


-level20peon

[MadDuke]

I was planing to usw WM-ware, as I doubt MS-Virtual Machine has been made for Linux ;-) (and I don't really know any other!)

/MadDuke