Topic: Media Center On Vmware (Read 179 times)

Junglist_Refugee · « **on:** December 19, 2005, 07:14:00 AM »

VMware Workstation v5 5 0 18463

thats the one i have installed and it works fine

Junglist_Refugee · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2005, 05:03:00 AM »

yup!

handy how you can mount .iso`s as well...

Krosus78 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2005, 03:25:00 PM »

O.k I got MCE2005 working on my rig under Virtual PC as VMWARE seemed to give me problems
I got a 4400+ X2 amd64
2gb ram
2x250gb SATAII drives in a striped array

And whenever i run Media center 2005 via virtual pc its a little slow even tho i gave it 1gb of ram, but... when i start to try and stream any movies etc from the virtual pc environment to the 360 it chugs upto 100%cpu used and chokes the video... Any ideas? i mean according to task manager on my xp machine its barely even breaking 10% load with virtual pc running, I tried giving virtual PC and affinity with a single core and also setting it to a HIGH state in task manager priority with no joy.

Sooo any ideas other than having to setup a dual boot /groan..

p$ilocybin · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2005, 09:15:00 PM »

do i need to partition to use this program??

Krosus78 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2005, 01:43:00 AM »

No, it creates a large equivalent of a swap file on the HD it accesses

Junglist_Refugee · « **Reply #5 on:** December 22, 2005, 05:04:00 AM »

QUOTE(Krosus78 @ Dec 22 2005, 12:32 AM)

O.k I got MCE2005 working on my rig under Virtual PC as VMWARE seemed to give me problems
I got a 4400+ X2 amd64
2gb ram
2x250gb SATAII drives in a striped array

And whenever i run Media center 2005 via virtual pc its a little slow even tho i gave it 1gb of ram, but... when i start to try and stream any movies etc from the virtual pc environment to the 360 it chugs upto 100%cpu used and chokes the video... Any ideas? i mean according to task manager on my xp machine its barely even breaking 10% load with virtual pc running, I tried giving virtual PC and affinity with a single core and also setting it to a HIGH state in task manager priority with no joy.

Sooo any ideas other than having to setup a dual boot /groan..

thats a bit weird alright, I take it you are using a wired network?

disable all your firelwalls for now, and try again

if you are on wireless, video streamig is aparently solid only on 802.11a

Keva · « **Reply #6 on:** December 23, 2005, 04:05:00 AM »

it works perfectly for me

NWMark · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2005, 06:39:00 AM »

Ive got VMWare workstation 5.5 installed with Media Centre 2005 installed and when i try and play a wmv file through media centre i get graphic card drivers not supported, ive installed my 6600GT drivers on Media Centre and still no joy.

any ideas?

cja100 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 28, 2005, 09:05:00 AM »

QUOTE(NWMark @ Dec 28 2005, 01:46 PM)

Ive got VMWare workstation 5.5 installed with Media Centre 2005 installed and when i try and play a wmv file through media centre i get graphic card drivers not supported, ive installed my 6600GT drivers on Media Centre and still no joy.

any ideas?

might be a stupid question but did you install the windows xp drivers or the windows xp media center edition ones?

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