Hello,
I am trying to install XBMC in a virtual machine that doesn't yet have a dedicated graphical card. I'll passthrough one as soon as it arrives, but that might take more than a month.
I want to configure the client beforehand, just to save some time, but the client won't open with the VM's adaptor, nor with RDP. Is there any way I can access the client to set my library and themes and other things in general?
A month without XBMC is like a month without sunshine! Pity.
Might be possible but you'd probably need need the VM guest additions installed in order for Direct3D acceleration to work.
(2013-07-17, 15:06)Chetyre Wrote: [ -> ]Hello,
I am trying to install XBMC in a virtual machine that doesn't yet have a dedicated graphical card. I'll passthrough one as soon as it arrives, but that might take more than a month.
I want to configure the client beforehand, just to save some time, but the client won't open with the VM's adaptor, nor with RDP. Is there any way I can access the client to set my library and themes and other things in general?
I RDP into my Server 2012 box and run XBMC 12.2 in windowed mode without any problems.. I had to follow the instructions at
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...#pid763406 to force it into WINDOW mode tho. YMMV I know this hasn't worked for everyone that's tried it.
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PatK
It is mostly for my wife lol. But she doesn't understand yet how awesome it will be.
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jjd-uk
My hypervisor doesn't offer any hardware acceleration for graphics unfortunately. Only disk and network drivers.
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vexation
I can't seem to find the gui settings file. It might be created during first startup, but I can't execute the first startup because of this issue.
EDIT: Ok, I'm an idiot. I was looking at the wrong folder, and found the correct one at the wiki. Didn't work however, gui creation failed. I do see a window however.
Well without Direct3D you ain't going to get XBMC to run
But isn't there anyway I can headlessly synchronize my library at least?