April 16, 201214 yr Hello! I am using unraid for three years now and I am quite happy with it. Now I am planning to consolidate my unraid and my TV server into one machine. I am planning to build a new server (16GB Ram, Xenon CPU) and install Windows 2008R2 on it. My TV card is a Digital Devices Cine CT: http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62357162/Categories/HDTV_Karten_fuer_Mediacenter/Cine_PCIe_Serie/DVBC_T and I am using DVBLink to stream TV content to three Media Center PCs: http://www.dvblogic.com/ My plan is to install unraid as a Hyper-V or Virtualbox machine and use my existing unraid harddrives (5x 2TB) via pass-through. Did anybody else try this before? Since I don't have 8TB backup storage available, I would need to add my live content to the new system and hope that nothing will break... What do you guys think? Is this a good idea? Thanks! Tobias
April 16, 201214 yr Why not do it the other way around - install Windows as a VirtualBox machine? It has been done and is much easier I think - If in fact it supports all your needs.
April 16, 201214 yr Author Can I get my TV card working in a virtualized Windows machine? It is a PCIe card...
April 16, 201214 yr Author Digital Devices Cine CT (V6) Dual DVB-C / DVB-T HDTV Tuner http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62357162/Categories/HDTV_Karten_fuer_Mediacenter/Cine_PCIe_Serie/DVBC_T
April 16, 201214 yr Author Ok, I read a bit more in the internet and I think it will not be possible to pass the PCIe TV card through to a Windows VM... I am planning on buying a IBM M1015 Raid controller which seams highly recommend here in the forum. I am just wondering if I can attach my existing 6 disks to this new RAID controller and have direct passthrough to a virtualized unraid server? Apparently it works with an ESXi host but I will be stuck with Hyper-V or Virtual Box due to my TV card. Any ideas? Thanks Tobias
April 17, 201214 yr you might want to do some more googling .. It looks like some people have built esxi boxes with Digital Devices TV tuners in them. I do not know about your specific model. but there might be a chance. you can always download a free copy of ESXi and test the card. that assuming you have a mobo with VT-d
April 18, 201214 yr If you're spending money anyways.. consider a HDHomerun network-based tuner. Then it doesn't matter whether the host is VM or physical, just load up the BDA drivers and it'll find the HDHomerun on the network and away you go (as many hosts as you like, the only limitation of course is the two tuners on board.)
April 18, 201214 yr Author I live in Germany and have encrypted digital TV with a smartcard. HDHomerun won't work...
April 18, 201214 yr Author I just ordered a MSI board (with Vt-d) and an Intel I5-2400s and will probably try the ESXi solution. Do I need to be careful when adding my existing unraid hard drives to the virtualized Unraid? Or is it safe?
April 18, 201214 yr Ok, I read a bit more in the internet and I think it will not be possible to pass the PCIe TV card through to a Windows VM... I am planning on buying a IBM M1015 Raid controller which seams highly recommend here in the forum. I am just wondering if I can attach my existing 6 disks to this new RAID controller and have direct passthrough to a virtualized unraid server? Apparently it works with an ESXi host but I will be stuck with Hyper-V or Virtual Box due to my TV card. Any ideas? Thanks Tobias I have Hauppauge HVR-2250 and AVerMedia AVerTVHD Duet on Passthrough for SageTV7 in Windows7. Also passed through a USB MB controller for 3 Hauppauge HVR-950Q's. It works well. Think the AVerTVHD Duet does pass through better then the HVR-2250. Windows7 always recognizes the device but SageTV has problems if I reconfigure my recording sources. I have to remove it from SageTV and Windows 7 as well as remove it from passthrough. Then add it back to passthrough reinstall drivers and in SageTV again. If I don't reconfigure SageTV recording devices I can reboot the VM all I want and it works great. With the AVerTVHD Duet I don't seem to loose it when reconfiguring recording devices in SageTV. Hopefully you will have good luck as well.
April 23, 201214 yr Author so, just a quick follow up. I got everything up and running last weekend with ESXi 5.0. The migration from my old server was very easy! Just plugged all my hard drives into the new M1015 I bought on Ebay and booted my existing unraid usb stick up with PLOP in my new virtual machine. Done! I installed an additional Windows 7 VM and used PCIe passthrough to get my Digital Device tv card running without any problems! Thanks for all the help! Was definitely worth the effort!!
June 1, 201214 yr so, just a quick follow up. I got everything up and running last weekend with ESXi 5.0. The migration from my old server was very easy! Just plugged all my hard drives into the new M1015 I bought on Ebay and booted my existing unraid usb stick up with PLOP in my new virtual machine. Done! I installed an additional Windows 7 VM and used PCIe passthrough to get my Digital Device tv card running without any problems! Thanks for all the help! Was definitely worth the effort!! which motherboard did you end up getting?
June 2, 201214 yr Hello! I am using unraid for three years now and I am quite happy with it. Now I am planning to consolidate my unraid and my TV server into one machine. I am planning to build a new server (16GB Ram, Xenon CPU) and install Windows 2008R2 on it. My TV card is a Digital Devices Cine CT: http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62357162/Categories/HDTV_Karten_fuer_Mediacenter/Cine_PCIe_Serie/DVBC_T and I am using DVBLink to stream TV content to three Media Center PCs: http://www.dvblogic.com/ My plan is to install unraid as a Hyper-V or Virtualbox machine and use my existing unraid harddrives (5x 2TB) via pass-through. Did anybody else try this before? Since I don't have 8TB backup storage available, I would need to add my live content to the new system and hope that nothing will break... What do you guys think? Is this a good idea? Thanks! Tobias Hyper-V has card pass-through?
June 2, 201214 yr Author which motherboard did you end up getting? I bought a MSI Z68A-GD80 G3. Works perfectly so far!
June 2, 201214 yr Author Hyper-V has card pass-through? I don't think so that is why I ended up using ESXi and I am absolutly satisfied with it!
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