SageTV within a virtual machine?

[aclarke]

Hi. Has anyone tried running SageTV from within a VM, say using VMWare? I probably won't do it, but I'm likely going to go out and buy a Core 2 machine today and was thinking it might make sense to put a Windows XP Pro VM inside the linux host and use SageTV from there.

I don't know if my USB-UIRT, NVidia TV out or Hauppauge PVR-250 would work like that though.

- Andrew.

[polen]

You wont get access to your capture hardware and I don't think you will get hardware accelleration from your video card for decoding.

I have VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and the free VMware Server 1.0.1 at work.

Now, what you could do is install Windows then the free VMware Virtual Server 1.0.1 and then install linux as a VM. On my SageTV server I have the VM Server installed running the linux router IPCop and all my internet traffic goes through it. My server has 3 nics in it, 2 for IPCop and 1 for the Windows Server/SageTV.

-Polen

[aclarke]

Yeah, that's what I figured, thanks. I'm just a little scared of having Windows as my host OS. I'll stick with Linux for that.

Well, I'm off to build my new core duo 2.13GHz server with 2GB of RAM, that will not, as it turns out, be running SageTV.

- Andrew.

[Narflex]

Why don't you just run the Linux version then?

[aclarke]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Why don't you just run the Linux version then?

Hi. This thread is stale, but my SageTV hardware finally died so I'm on the verge of buying new stuff, and was back at the "should I try to virtualize" phase and realized I'd already asked this question, and had left a reply unanswered ... so ...

The computer I built after posting this question was/is my main application server for various tasks. I didn't want to mix business and pleasure and have SageTV running in my host OS. I don't want any glitches with television having the opportunity to bring down a mission-critical computer. This was why I wanted to run SageTV in a virtualized environment, rather than on the host OS.

I hope that makes sense, and I guess at this point I'll just go out and buy a new Core 2 duo setup today for SageTV. That way I can use it to host my VMWare images in a pinch if my main server goes down.

- Andrew.