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David Sydney:
Hi there - happy new year for those who are using the Gregorian calendar!

I am realaively new to Linux (few months) and moved across because I can setup activity under virtual machines that I can recover, copy etc far easier. I have set up KVM/QEMU virtual machines with GPU passthrough. In addition to my machine specs on my signature I have an older, but perfectly fine Compro VideoMate E900 TV Tuner video capture PCI card which I have also passed through directly to the Win10 guest machine I have created. I have used documented edits to the VM XML file to "hide" the hypervisor - so that Windows 10 thinks it is running on a native machine.

Here is the problem. Although I can see the tuner card in device manager, and I get no error and "device is working properly" JRiver cannot see the card when I install - unlike the native Windows 10 installation I had previously where it worked fine. I posted over in the TV forum under "Lost Tuner" https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,134098.msg932052.html#msg932052 - but I do believe it is a Windows problem. I am posting here because no one with a straight Win10 setup would be experiencing this.

Anyone else messing with VMs and particulary VMs with Windows 10 guest, and JRiver installation that can share their experience? Running JRiver in a VM? PS. I have setup up VMs in VirtualBox before (MacOS, Win7, XP, 98 etc) but the VirtualBox environment does not allow hardware pass through so I have never tried to install JRiver in a VM until now.?

David

bob:
MC linux ONLY supports networked tuners. Like HDHomeRun.

David Sydney:
Thanks Bob, the host is Linux but the vm is Windows 10 that I'm trying install JRiver on. So it should be the same as Bare metal windows install. I know Iam in the minority here, but didn't think I was by myself!🤔

mattkhan:
My server is running in a Windows VM on Linux, I have passed hardware through to it before though not a TV tuner. This is purely guesswork but I recall MC is quite picky about what sort of tuner device it will work with so is the device appearing to windows as a different type of device? Are you able to compare it running bare metal Vs in your VM? Can you post what that looks like?

David Sydney:
Thanks Mattkhan. The device shows up the same in both straight windows and in Windows VM on Linux (dual boot setup). Then inside Windows on bare metal install the devices are picked up by JRiver and show in the Settings, Television, manage devices... while the Windows VM version has a blank list?

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