Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PCI tuners with XEN

["Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry Christian.

Actually I am thinking William Eder may not need to go to the extent
of creating para-virtualized linux guests and passing through the PCI
TV tuner card to the linux guest.

I am suspecting that TV tuner card drivers may not be available or be
able to work properly under a Xen kernel. But since William is already
running Ubuntu linux, he has the option of loading a Xen or a non-Xen
kernel in GRUB. In that scenario, he should be able to load the
conventional Ubuntu supplied non-Xen kernel and install the
appropriate drivers for his PCI TV tuner card.

PCI TV tuner cards with the BT848 and BT878 chipsets are very well
supported in linux.

I am using the Hauppage WinTV PVR USB2 TV tuner box. pvrusb2 drivers
get automatically loaded when the USB cable of the TV tuner is plugged
into my machine (working under non-Xen kernel). I use it in
conjunction with mythtv. When I need to use Win XP virtual machine,
then I reboot into Xen pvops dom0 kernel.

For William's case, he needs to check what the chipset on his PCI TV
tuner card is.

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Christian Tramnitz <chris.ace@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>>
>> Alternately you may like to try linux-based TV tuner applications like
>> mythtv (http://www.mythtv.org) which I am using, or xawtv, or kdetv.
>
>
>
> This is exactly what I had in mind when suggesting:
>> [...] or you'll have run PV (i.e. Linux) guests and see if you can
>> get drivers for your TV card there (which is very likely)
>
> And once again Teo, please don't reply to all, just to the list.
>
>
> Thanks,
>   Christian
>
>
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