[mythtv-users] Virtualized MythTV

[Mark Boyum]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>   On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Danie Brink <danie.brink at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >  Hi all,
> > Thanks for all the responses :-)
> >
> > A bit more info:
> > The 20 apartments have 2-6 TVs each, in total I'm dealing with 67 TVs
> > and thats just phase 1 of 3. Each apartment has its own coax feed plus 2GB
> > backhaul, each TV outlet also has a gigabit port. All the TV here is analog
> > cable, no digital available (Satellite is too glitchy in this tropical
> > weather without a dish big enough to block the view).
> >
> > John:
> > I'm pretty sure I can get a Plextor TV402U's USB connection piped to the
> > right machine under Xen, I do it with USB scanners & printers all the time,
> > for PCI I've had some Adaptec & LSI RAID cards assigned to specific VM's by
> > filtering access to the PCI slot in Xen, my biggest concerns are load and if
> > anyone knows of any specific quirks running MythTV under Xen.
> >
> > Jay:
> > Combined BE/FEs with that many TVs is just too expensive, I looked at
> > the HDHomeRun but its digital-only and we need analog. I also want to give
> > each of the apartments some storage space for their own photos & music.
> >
> > Jre:
> > Sorry - my writing was a bit confusing I meant: 2x Xeon Quad-Core 3GHz
> > per machine.
> >
> > On the whole it seems worth at least a good test, I've got 2 comparable
> > servers coming in in two weeks, I'll get hold of at least two Plextor TV402U
> > as well and see what happens. I also want to try out the MediaMVP for a FE,
> > I'll let you all know how it goes.
> >
> > Danie
> >
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> > Has anyone found myth to be stable enough to support such a thing?  I
> have enough trouble keeping my 4 frontends working...
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Sorry to go off-topic:
But I find Myth to be rock solid when I don't have enough time to tinker
with it.  My wife doesn't like it when I have a few spare hours to play
around on the box.  In the end I usually get a new feature running, but it
can be painful to get there.
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