Ongoing MediaPortal TVService on virtualized Windows XP (1 Viewer)

[dm15644]

AW: MediaPortal TVService on virtualized Windows XP

Wow, wasn't aware that this is already 8 months old....

Michael, the answer to your first question is yes and no. I would say that I'm still studying the feasibility, as I have Amahi running in a VM of it's own, using VWware. Currently I'm in the process of verifiying it, but I haven't put it into prodction. I'll probably wait until they come out with the Fedora 14 based solution, which should be soon.

Regarding then TVServer in it's own VM, I intend to use WMWare as well. A couple of weeks ago I moved to USB TV tuners, and from what I have investigated so far, this should work. Guest OS to run TVServer will be Windows 7, because I consider it stable and also I have a spare license.

Startup and shutdown is indeed a challenge. As of now, Amahi don't have functions for automatic or timed startup/shutdown. Actually I'm developing a tool that shold facilitate this, and the progress is quite ok. However, to finalize this, I first have to move Amahi into production... so I run into a kind of hen and egg problem. Once I have figured out how to do this, my impression is that handling the Windows VM startup/shutdown is doable.

Then, about how I like Amahi as such - it's rock solid, but it need's manual configuration. Nothing spectacular, but you should be able to type some Linux commands. In addition, and that counts for any community project, there may be a risk that this project at some point just dies, which would leave you with an unsupported solution. Comparing wth MediaPortal my impression is that the Amahi community is quite a bit smaller, I guess I have to work with them a little longer to find out how stable the organization is.

Stay tuned....

/jayrock

 

[mdg78]

Re: AW: MediaPortal TVService on virtualized Windows XP

Thanks so much for the quick repy!

I think I'm going to try to start playing around with amahi this weekend. I realized the community was small, and agree that I was a little skeptical because of that. It seems that it is working pretty well for most people. If Amahi works well for my needs, I would like to see the community get a little bigger, it's always nice to have smarter people to turn to for help, right? The only negatives aspects I see from people using it so far is that it is Linux based and needs some configuration (and this hasn't scared me off yet, so hopefully it won't be so bad knowing that starting out).

I think I'll definitely try it out for a home server/mediastreaming solution. If it works out well, I'm going to try to put a VM on it and run TV server from it. I hope that will work, but am a little skeptical of whether I will be able to get TVserver working.

I understand your problem with moving a testing machine into production. Good Luck!

Michael