2012-09-27, 01:53
OK, so the answer to my question might be that I'm doing something that I'm not supposed to be able to do, but I don't see why it wouldn't work in principle.
I have a dual-boot machine, with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I have a 2nd drive which has read/write access from both installs. I have xbmc Eden installed on both OSes. I installed a mysql server on both OSes and use symbolic links (Ubuntu) and mklink (Windows 7) to point xbmc to a shared mysql database on the 2nd drive. Both of the xbmc installs used MyMusic18.db and MyVideos60.db, so there doesn't seem to be a version difference between the databases. The mysql database works, in the sense that all my files are present on both OSes. If I add a file to the database in Ubuntu, the file is already present in Windows next time I log in. The only thing that is not working correctly is the watched status. My windows xmbc install has no files marked as being watched, whereas the ubuntu xbmc install has the correct flags set and shows the watched status correctly.
I saw mentioned on another thread that the xbmc versions need to be identical. Well, both installs are Eden, but how identical do they need to be? The windows xbmc install shows the git version used for the installer, whereas the ubuntu xmbc install lists 'unknown' for the git version. Does that even matter? They are both XBMC Eden final releases.
The other alternative is that there is something fundamentally wrong with what I am attempting to do it simply won't work. Is that the case?
Thanks.
I have a dual-boot machine, with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I have a 2nd drive which has read/write access from both installs. I have xbmc Eden installed on both OSes. I installed a mysql server on both OSes and use symbolic links (Ubuntu) and mklink (Windows 7) to point xbmc to a shared mysql database on the 2nd drive. Both of the xbmc installs used MyMusic18.db and MyVideos60.db, so there doesn't seem to be a version difference between the databases. The mysql database works, in the sense that all my files are present on both OSes. If I add a file to the database in Ubuntu, the file is already present in Windows next time I log in. The only thing that is not working correctly is the watched status. My windows xmbc install has no files marked as being watched, whereas the ubuntu xbmc install has the correct flags set and shows the watched status correctly.
I saw mentioned on another thread that the xbmc versions need to be identical. Well, both installs are Eden, but how identical do they need to be? The windows xbmc install shows the git version used for the installer, whereas the ubuntu xmbc install lists 'unknown' for the git version. Does that even matter? They are both XBMC Eden final releases.
The other alternative is that there is something fundamentally wrong with what I am attempting to do it simply won't work. Is that the case?
Thanks.