Ongoing MediaPortal TVService on virtualized Windows XP (1 Viewer)

[Diggen]

Ok found out my Twinhan is broken. It has the same behaviour under native Windows as in Xen Windows. Probably thats why i haven't used it, ago.
Also tried Parralles Server Beta with Vt-D Support but it was very unstable and I had to reinstall my complete Windows.
Butt Thums up for the Asus Board my 1x PCIe TVCard works in the PCIe 16x Slot as is should.

 

[nilsga]

Continuing this semi-old thread...

So even though the download page for Xen 3.2.1 says "Preliminary PCI pass-through support (using appropriate Intel or AMD I/O-virtualization hardware)", you still need to download and build from source?

I'm really interested in setting up a server with Xen, TVServer (with FloppyDTV DVB-C cards) and Openfiler, so I'll probably give it a shot sooner or later.

 

[stoked]

I assume so since the release is still at 3.2.1. Unless you want to mess around wasting a lot of time, I'd suggest building from source.

 

[nilsga]

Instead of using the GPL PV drivers, coud I install a second NIC and export it to the DomU running WinXP? And you were trying with PCI Tuner cards, right? I'm going to try with FloppyDTVs using firewire. Hope it'll work... Assuming the IEEE1394 controller is a PCI device I should be able to export the entire controller to the DomU?

I've asked on the Xen-users list as well, and have been hanging around on ##xen, but haven't got a response yet.

 

[stoked]

Instead of using the GPL PV drivers, coud I install a second NIC and export it to the DomU running WinXP? And you were trying with PCI Tuner cards, right? I'm going to try with FloppyDTVs using firewire. Hope it'll work... Assuming the IEEE1394 controller is a PCI device I should be able to export the entire controller to the DomU?

I've asked on the Xen-users list as well, and have been hanging around on ##xen, but haven't got a response yet.

Yeah, you should be able to export a NIC to the DomU if you want. You can do a lspci and see if the IEEE1394 controller is shown.

 

[vertiger]

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[jenklins]

Hi!

Anyone tried VirtualBox?

I have a setup whit virtualbox on ubuntu hardy whit xp as guest and usb dvb-t cards all works finne exept for the stuttering tv playbay... :-(
I only have a Intel p4 3.0 ht cpu without intel vt tech, so I guess that is the problem...
While time-shifting the cpu usage for the VirtualBox process gos up to 70% - 102% :-S

I was wondering if a amd phenom x4 whit IOMMU will work? I have herd that VirtualBox supports amd IOMMU tech
but haven´t tried it my self...
The prise is nice... :-D

Any suggestions??

 

[jenklins]

If any wan is interested... vmware server 2.0 on Linux worked fine for me whit winxp as guest and tvserver 1.0
2x usb dvb-t cards.
HW: p4 3.0 HT and 2gb ram, no virtual cpu features
I guess other vmware solutions like the Player works to but have not tested... the web gui of server is nais...

All initializes fine and USB true put is good... got 20/18 mb read/write whit a cruzer usb stick in crystal diskmark...
Got 6/4 mb on VirtualBox 2.1.4 whit same stick, same port, same os...

no more stuttering tv, recorde + livetv works fine to.


If you, like me have a 24/7 linux server in your wardrobe this is the solution to run tvservice in it to...


MP is the greatest media center solution ever!

 

[dm15644]

AW: MediaPortal TVService on virtualized Windows XP

Just bumping this old thread...

I'm looking into deploying this: Amahi Home Server - Making Home Networking Simple

MediaPortal TVServer will have to run in a virtual machine then. Which guest OS do you recommend? At present the server runs on Win7, in my experience much more stable than XP or Vista (and I have a spare Win7 license).

My TV-Card is a PCI one (see system specs). From the previous posts I get the impression that this does not work nicely, is this still the case?

Last not least, right now standy and wakeup works nicely on the Win7 machine. I'm a little concerned that an OS running in a VM will not be able to wake the computer - any experiences?

Cheers,

jayrock

 

[mdg78]

Re: AW: MediaPortal TVService on virtualized Windows XP

Just bumping this old thread...

I'm looking into deploying this: Amahi Home Server - Making Home Networking Simple

MediaPortal TVServer will have to run in a virtual machine then. Which guest OS do you recommend? At present the server runs on Win7, in my experience much more stable than XP or Vista (and I have a spare Win7 license).

My TV-Card is a PCI one (see system specs). From the previous posts I get the impression that this does not work nicely, is this still the case?

Last not least, right now standy and wakeup works nicely on the Win7 machine. I'm a little concerned that an OS running in a VM will not be able to wake the computer - any experiences?

Cheers,

jayrock

Jayrock-

Did you try this or get this done? I am about to start the process of setting up a server and was considering amahi. I would like to get TVserver on the same box and have been considering a VM for that. I have a usb tv card (hd-pvr - I'm in US w/ a cable box) and figure I should be able to pass through the USB to the VM.

If you did get this to work, which OS did you use? How do you like amahi? or did it crash and burn?

Thanks,
Michael