osburnfamily wrote: So, I’ve

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October 9, 2012 at 12:34 pm #7581
babgvant
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    [quote=osburnfamily]

    So, I’ve seen others do a 2k8 server on the physical host, and the bring up a virtual machine guest for the windows 7 piece.  It’s doable but I believe requires hacks in the guest (not sure on that part, check other posts of people who’ve done it).

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    If a DCT is used, you will need to use the DCA override tool to enable it. The only other caveat is that all of your tuners will need to be network or USB addressabl.

    [quote=osburnfamily]

    I never found the pros of having a server outweigh the complexities of another layer to support.  Maybe others can chime in here.

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    If WMC & file serving is the only thing you use it for then there isn’t a reason to take on the additional complexity. I run a w2k8r2 box as a file server and use Hyper-V to host a web server, WHS11, and some testing builds so I would have the infrastructure setup anyway. In this scenario (if I didn’t want to have a WMC at the TV) it would be easier to setup the box as a VM on the server than use physical HW.