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<blockquote data-quote="VirtualMP" data-source="post: 822479" data-attributes="member: 114521">No but they are in adjacent rooms and I could send the HDMI via cat6 and USB via cat5 for penies compared to having a second machine switched on 24/7.I have picked up a second PC for testing, an HP DC7900 E8400 which is fully VT-d compliant for under £100 on ebay.&nbsp; This has a single PCI bridge as per Lyve's machine so all pci cards go to one VM like it or not.&nbsp; You can assign them to different VM's but they wont work.&nbsp; I will get it up to the house and plug the TV ariel in to it to test the 2 TV tunners I have on 1 VM.&nbsp; Only for testing I realise its underpowered as a VM host.Also working on one more problem.&nbsp; I have now been using this ESXi server/HTPC for months as the main HTPC but I recently fitted my Blu Ray drive.&nbsp; VM's are not HDCP compatible as the VMWare VGA driver cannot be disabled so I used AnyDVD but now PowerDVD wont work after an upgrade, it work on a fresh install but asks to be upgraded then it will no longer work, very frustrating its one problem after another.&nbsp; EDIT:- further to this I just tried WinDVD and it detects that it is running on a Virtual machine and notifies you it wont run on a virtual machine.&nbsp; I suppose its to be expected both Corel and Cyberlink have to show they are keeping up with anti piracy and in the past virtual hardware has been a way of achieving this (thinking virtual CD drives to get round copied game discs).&nbsp; So in short playing Blu Rays with menu's looks to be a show stopper for a virtualised HTPC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VirtualMP, post: 822479, member: 114521"] No but they are in adjacent rooms and I could send the HDMI via cat6 and USB via cat5 for penies compared to having a second machine switched on 24/7. I have picked up a second PC for testing, an HP DC7900 E8400 which is fully VT-d compliant for under £100 on ebay. This has a single PCI bridge as per Lyve's machine so all pci cards go to one VM like it or not. You can assign them to different VM's but they wont work. I will get it up to the house and plug the TV ariel in to it to test the 2 TV tunners I have on 1 VM. Only for testing I realise its underpowered as a VM host. Also working on one more problem. I have now been using this ESXi server/HTPC for months as the main HTPC but I recently fitted my Blu Ray drive. VM's are not HDCP compatible as the VMWare VGA driver cannot be disabled so I used AnyDVD but now PowerDVD wont work after an upgrade, it work on a fresh install but asks to be upgraded then it will no longer work, very frustrating its one problem after another. EDIT:- further to this I just tried WinDVD and it detects that it is running on a Virtual machine and notifies you it wont run on a virtual machine. I suppose its to be expected both Corel and Cyberlink have to show they are keeping up with anti piracy and in the past virtual hardware has been a way of achieving this (thinking virtual CD drives to get round copied game discs). So in short playing Blu Rays with menu's looks to be a show stopper for a virtualised HTPC. [/QUOTE]

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