[CentOS] zoneminder

Thu Feb 6 00:01:18 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 12:17 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:58 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> Is there a package for zoneminder in the std repos (base, rpmfusion,
>>> epel), or just on rpmforge?
>>>
>>>          mark "unless someone's got a security DVR to loan us for testing...."
>>
>> Should be relatively easy to make their virtual machine run under
>> virtualbox or kvm if you don't have something running ESXi (and the
>> necessary windows console client) already.
>>
>
> Virtual Machine might need access to PCI/PCIe for CCTV card. So it would
> need IOMMU MB for host. I tested zoneminder with USB camera, works nice.
> I was just testing it though.

You could spend your budget on IP cameras and not need to worry about
hardware connections or where the server sits.   If your old system
works with IP cameras you could probably use the same approach - run
it under an OS that works in a VM somewhere and treat it like an
appliance.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com