Currently I'm in the process of building a few HTPC's for the house, and while looking for parts it struck me... Why not virtualize them and run them off my ESXi 5.1 server?
I did a little googling but couldn't find all the answer I was looking for, so here goes.
I plan on virtualizing a Windows 7 machine (For Blu-Ray) with XBMC, and then I need to find a way to present said machine to the TV.
For that I would need a low powered machine, that needs no more computing power than being able to show full HD (Right?, All the processing would be done at the server?)
Guess the 2 questions are:
1: Would that be a viable option? or would it be better/cheaper to just buy and install a physical pc with XBMC?
2: How to I present the virtual XBMC machine to the TV? I'm guessing some client-software installed on a Linux (I prefer Linux) OS that is installed on a cheap small machine. How would the screen/image quality be? Would It be better If I had a physical XBMC machine?
I did a little googling but couldn't find all the answer I was looking for, so here goes.
I plan on virtualizing a Windows 7 machine (For Blu-Ray) with XBMC, and then I need to find a way to present said machine to the TV.
For that I would need a low powered machine, that needs no more computing power than being able to show full HD (Right?, All the processing would be done at the server?)
Guess the 2 questions are:
1: Would that be a viable option? or would it be better/cheaper to just buy and install a physical pc with XBMC?
2: How to I present the virtual XBMC machine to the TV? I'm guessing some client-software installed on a Linux (I prefer Linux) OS that is installed on a cheap small machine. How would the screen/image quality be? Would It be better If I had a physical XBMC machine?