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<blockquote data-quote="MikeKulls" data-source="post: 828053" data-attributes="member: 117668">I am working on a similar solution with ESXI 5.0 and the HP N40L home server. The problem I have, as many other's have had, is getting the video to not stutter. This appears to be an issue in a VM. In my case I can't use a PCI-e card because I don't have&nbsp; VT-d and I found USB passthrough to be flaky so am now trying to use the HDHomeRun network tuner. I only got it last night and it worked straight off but the video was stuttering. I have a number of options to fix this including running a separate network card for the HDHomeRun, going to hardware with VT-d or switching to Server 2008R2 with hyper-V so that the TV server is not virtualized.I know this thread is almost a couple of years old but in response to the OP, ESXI does not support software raid but passing the disks through to an OS that does is entirely possible. That would have eliminated all your issues with the raid card. Software raid solves the issue that your disks are locked to a particular card.In relation to running a linux router in a VM I have this running with pfSense under ESXI and it works very well. The only issue I encountered was that I had to set ESXI to a static IP because it couldn't get an IP from the router because it obviously boots up second.With regards to vga passthrough and running the client as a virtual machine I would suggest going with a separate low power machine. The reason is that using a VM is not really scalable to multiple TVs, it's not very portable if you move the TV and the hardware to send HDMI, USB, IR + multiple network cables is going to not be too much cheaper than a cheap PC (a $100 PC would work as a client). The power isn't that big an issue because the PC can go to sleep.Has anyone got media portal server to work reasonably well under ESXI?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MikeKulls, post: 828053, member: 117668"] I am working on a similar solution with ESXI 5.0 and the HP N40L home server. The problem I have, as many other's have had, is getting the video to not stutter. This appears to be an issue in a VM. In my case I can't use a PCI-e card because I don't have VT-d and I found USB passthrough to be flaky so am now trying to use the HDHomeRun network tuner. I only got it last night and it worked straight off but the video was stuttering. I have a number of options to fix this including running a separate network card for the HDHomeRun, going to hardware with VT-d or switching to Server 2008R2 with hyper-V so that the TV server is not virtualized. I know this thread is almost a couple of years old but in response to the OP, ESXI does not support software raid but passing the disks through to an OS that does is entirely possible. That would have eliminated all your issues with the raid card. Software raid solves the issue that your disks are locked to a particular card. In relation to running a linux router in a VM I have this running with pfSense under ESXI and it works very well. The only issue I encountered was that I had to set ESXI to a static IP because it couldn't get an IP from the router because it obviously boots up second. With regards to vga passthrough and running the client as a virtual machine I would suggest going with a separate low power machine. The reason is that using a VM is not really scalable to multiple TVs, it's not very portable if you move the TV and the hardware to send HDMI, USB, IR + multiple network cables is going to not be too much cheaper than a cheap PC (a $100 PC would work as a client). The power isn't that big an issue because the PC can go to sleep. Has anyone got media portal server to work reasonably well under ESXI? [/QUOTE]

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