Re: Virtualisation

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dave, the HDHomeRun looks viable, although I wonder what load
"recording" puts on the host PC?  I currently use GBPVR on a
Windows 2003
server machine with 2 freeview and 1 cable tuner cards and recording 2
freeview transport streams and 1 program on the cable tuner simultaneously
puts neglible load on the machine.

Martyn


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Balharrie" <davidj@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:45 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Virtualisation


> Hi Martyn,
> I have virtualised the severs I have with VMware Server and had great
> success. The only issues I have had is with Geovision & DTV
capture cards.
> I'm going to try out a IP server box to allow me to remove Geovision.
For
> DTV capture cards I'm looking at this device HDHomeRun -
> http://tinyurl.com/c5xz6w
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Martyn Wendon
> Sent: 30 April 2009 19:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Virtualisation
>
> Having just replaced my main desktop pc (P4 3.8 of 4 years vintage)
and
> 21"
> CRT monitors with a modern decent laptop and a couple of LCD screens,
I
> was
> surprised at just how much my electricity usage has dropped (from
baseline
> of 2.2KWh to 1.7KWh)!
>
> So now I'm on an electricity economy drive and figure that the next
thing
> to
> look at is potentially virtualising some or all of the various servers
> here.
>
> Currently I'm running:
>
> Shadow IDS (3 nics)
> Trixbox PBX (no extra hardware as all phones are IP)
> Windows SBS / Exchange / DC / etc (2 nics)
> Zoneminder (16 ch capture card)
> HA server (loads of serial ports on pci cards)
> Media server (bluetooth dongle, tv capture cards)
>
> All on separate machines, mainly P4s of 3-4 years vintage.
>
> I know that some of you have followed a similar route so I'm seeking
> advice
> / ideas / gotchas and general information / success (!) stories,
> especially
> in how to make hardware such as capture cards available to a virtual
> machine?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martyn
>
>
>
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