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I am attempting to install Kodi Keia beta following the wiki instructions for installing from the nightly PPA. This is running in conjunction with TVHeadEnd 4.3. The whole setup is running in WMWare Workstation on a Ubuntu 18 platform. Leia boots ok, then when the PVR manager starts up it crashes. Keeps dying at exactly the same point. Is anyone aware of this issue and/or can suggest a solution/alternative Leia build to try? Thanks.
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Wmware is a virtual environment isn’t it? Kodi doesn’t play well at all under a virtual environment
Server: Ubuntu Server 22TB HDD running SAMBA
Kodi: 4 Raspberry Pi 3 running Libreelec - on the main PC - running Linux Mint
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strange, because I've installed kodi also in a vmware virtual machine for testing with tvheadend, based on ubuntu server 18.04.1 and it works flawlessy here no crash at all.
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ok, now we are getting somewhere...2:18.0+git20180910.1208-beta2 installed successfully and i have successfully streamed some IPTV content from TVHeadEnd 4.3 into Kodi Leia...thanks for the input, black_eagle...
wsnipex...my playback is a bit slower and buggier on said IPTV content that when run in parallel in a next-pvr powered windows Leia build on a physical machine. is this because i am lacking hardware decoding in the VM? the VM is only a stopgap anyway...I am in the process of planning my HTPC hardware and want a working OS up and running before I do, which I am doing in VM...
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Pretty much what the others have said. A VM isn't likely to give you hardware decoding, meaning the CPU is doing twice as much work as it would be on a proper install. If you want to test stuff, maybe a dual/triple boot install would be better than testing in a VM.
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