ddichiera Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Is it possible to run the Recording Service in Virtual PC? I tried it and it can't find the hardware. Is there a workaround? Thanks, Dominic
Sherry Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Is it possible to run the Recording Service in Virtual PC? I tried it and it can't find the hardware. Is there a workaround? Of course, a Virtual PC typically has "virtual hardware" only. The only option that should work is to forward the DVB device to the Virtual PC, install the driver and use it as you're used to. However: - This will only work with USB receivers (since forwarding of other hardware like PCI etc. is not supported by any virtual PC software I know.) - This will work with VirtuaBox (with VirtualBox Extension Pack installed!), WMWare or Microsoft VirtualPC (under Windows 7 - the older versions do not support USB!) So, if you have a PCI/PCIe based DVB card this will not work. If you have an USB one, this should be possible! Edited July 10, 2012 by Sherry
mague Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Hi, the workaround is to use a windows with the recording service as host and run the other operating system(s) in a virtual environment. Linux works well with colinux. Linux and other operating systems run well with Oracle's Virtual Box.
ddichiera Posted July 10, 2012 Author Posted July 10, 2012 Thanks for the replies, Unfortunately I have PCI hardware and it's the RS I want to relocate to the Virtual Machine, not the other way around. Reason is my current Media Server PC keeps crashing; it runs both RS and Logitech Media Server and I think they don't like each other, so I'm building a new machine with two virtual PCs in order to get them separated. Also, if they crash, I'll still have access to the network shares and Remote Desktop to the main crate which I could use to restart etc. BTW it's all Win7 environment.
Sherry Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Reason is my current Media Server PC keeps crashing; it runs both RS and Logitech Media Server and I think they don't like each other, so I'm building a new machine with two virtual PCs in order to get them separated. Do you know which component causes the crash? The recording service runs fine for me... Maybe it would be a good idea to run RS on the host PC and share the recording directory with a VirtualPC running the Logitech Media Server since that hopefully requires no hardware access?
ddichiera Posted July 10, 2012 Author Posted July 10, 2012 I suspect either one of the PCI cards - I've had occasional problems with the Hauppauge Nova TD 500 before, or Logitech Media Server. RS (without hardware)has been running in one of the VMs for a week now without any problems, although I haven't actually "used" it. A second VM has been running without any installed software, to which I'll now add Logitech Media Server. Fingers crossed.
Sherry Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 I suspect either one of the PCI cards - I've had occasional problems with the Hauppauge Nova TD 500 before, or Logitech Media Server. Somewhere I read that some PCI cards cause mysterious problems on certain slots. If your current experiment fails, you could also try to shift/swap them...
MOS-Marauder Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 Well..Running Recording Service in a VirtualBox VM on a Linux host works with a CPU that Supports VT-d. But there is a lot Handwork to to in order to get it running.... Chris
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