[mythtv-users] VMWare on the backend. Viable solution?

Gerald Brandt gbr at majentis.com
Mon Jan 11 19:11:04 UTC 2010


I ran two backends under Xen for over a year with PCI pass-through. Both the primary and slave backends had a PVR-250 card assigned to them. I had no problems at all. When I switched to my HD-PVR, I made a new backend for it and "tossed" my Xen VM's. 

Gerald 

----- "Martin Ravell" <martin.ravell at rave-tech.com.au> wrote: 
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I’m just about to put in a new box for my home server and am thinking about changing my Myth setup as well. I’d appreciate your comments if you have done anything similar: 



I’ve been running Myth for about 6 years on a couple of different boxes. Started out installing with Fedora from Jarod’s excellent guide but moved over to MythDora when it became available. I have a PVR-350 that I’m using for capture and an NVidia 9400 for output. Pretty high WAF. 



Given that I am putting in a new i7 machine as the home file server with a bunch of memory so that I can run VMWare for work related stuff I am wondering if running MythBackend on a virtual machine is a reasonable option these days? 



I could keep my current hardware on the Myth box as frontend only and move the Foxtel STB to the office where it would be far more convenient than the cabinet underneath the living room floor as it is now. 



The new home server is getting a nice ARECA RAID card and a bunch of disks as well. This should add some reliability as I’ve lost my Myth system a couple of times due to disk failures in the past. 



My rig is still SD (although I’m planning going to HD this year). Network is all wired so I don’t think speed will be an issue. 



What do you think? Is VMWare with MythBackend on a (probably Fedora or CentOS) virtual machine a viable option? I may add some more front-ends as well but at this stage it will be one of each. 







Regards 

Marty 


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