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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Re: MythTV and Xen

To: Bastiaan <Bastiaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Re: MythTV and Xen
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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:05:42 +0000
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Bastiaan wrote:
> lists wrote:
>
>   
>> Bastiaan wrote:
>>     
>>> lists wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone successfully running MythTV in either a Dom0 or DomU?  I have
>>>> mythtv running with 4 PCI Hauppauge Nova-T DVB cards in a C2D system
>>>> with a G33 chipset mobo under OpenSUSE 10.3.  Everything works perfectly
>>>> under the x86-64 kernel, as soon as I reboot into the Xen kernel I get
>>>> picture tearing and eventually mythtv will crash, usually with a glibc
>>>> malloc error.  The best way I can describe the picture tearing is that
>>>> it's almost like the TV signal has become very weak, there are lots of
>>>> mpeg artifacts on the screen like squares of static image and blocks of
>>>> strange coloured pixels.
>>>>
>>>> I'm open to suggestions of other distros to try.  Fedora Core 8 springs
>>>> to mind as a possibility since it was only recently released so should
>>>> have a very up-to-date version of Xen included.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Steve.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I got mythtv working in xen, both te backend and frontend run in domU's,
>>> sharing the dom0 with some other (distcc) domU's.
>>> I haven't had any trouble with is.
>>> Distro is gentoo, on amd64.
>>> If you have any specific questions, you can always mail me off-list (I do
>>> not check the lists too often)
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hi Bas,
>>
>> Thanks for replying. It would be useful to keep this discussion on the
>> list so that other people can benefit if they have a similar problem and
>> search the list.
>>     
>
>
>
> I'll keep all reply's on the list, just send me an email if you need
> (urgent) info. I do check my inbox several times a day, lists more like
> once every two weeks...
>
>
>   
>> Could you let me know what kernel version and xen version you are using.
>> Also, what hardware are you using for your backend? I am especially
>> interested in the motherboard, CPU and TV cards that you're using.
>>     
>
> I use the gentoo distribution, and everything is straight from portage.
> xen-sources and xen are the current ~amd64 (thats gentoo unstable for
> amd64)
> kernel = 2.6.20 and xen 3.1.2
>
>   
I'm using kernel 2.6.22 but I'm not sure how I go about finding the xen
version.

> Motherboard is a gigabyte board, ill have to look up the exact type later, i
> am not at home right now. 
> CPU's are AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ (3200+ for file
> backends)
>
> Capturecards are all WinTV cards. All anolog input. I am experimenting with
> a TV over IP provider here in the Netherlands, but nut much luck yet!
>
>   
Do you have to pass any boot arguments such as noacpi, noapic or
irqpoll? (I'm not sure if I spelt those arguments correctly, I can't
remember them without my notes.)

TV over IP, sounds interesting! :-)

>> Ultimately, I would like to be able to pass the DVB cards to the DomU
>> and run the backend in a DomU. This would make upgrading easier since I
>> could take a copy of the current myth backend, upgrade it and if
>> something doesn't work I could simply boot up the original DomU. :-)
>>
>>     
>
> That was one of the reasons i made this setup.
>
>   
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>>     
>>> regards,
>>>  Bas
>>>
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