RE: Quad processor / server - recommendation ?

["David Balharrie" <davidj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For VMware there is sadly no way to pass PCI cards through to the VM.
For my PVR and geovision I have had to use a physical host.  One way
around this might be a USB tuner which you could pass to the VM. I
haven't tested this to see how well it would work.



You can get VMWare server for Windows and Linux here

http://register.vmware.com/content/download.html



It is possible to get it working on XP with a guide like this
http://www.vmwarez.com/2006/05/installing-vmware-server-on-windows-xp.ht
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David





From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Marcus Warrington
Sent: 30 October 2007 14:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quad processor / server - recommendation ?



Just tried to download the evaluation copy and first obstacle ... it
would appear it only runs on Windows 2003.

Marcus

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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Of Marcus Warrington
Sent: 30 October 2007 11:35
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Quad processor / server - recommendation ?

Yes, that's what I read as well.. sounds interesting. I'll have to get
a demo and try it.

I just wonder how resilient this is.. with VMWare if the VM crashes the
PC stays up, but with this I just wonder if something goes wrong does
the whole host PC crash ?

Marcus

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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Of Jim Noble
Sent: 30 October 2007 11:27
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Quad processor / server - recommendation ?

Marcus Warrington wrote:
> That's a new one on me... since it uses native drivers I wonder if it
> could see my DVBT cards ? Might be a way of getting GB-PVR running in
a
> VM.
>

Xen's "PCI passthrough" feature allows you to allocate a PCI card
to a
guest VM...

Jim

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