[mythtv-users] Mythbackend successfully running on virtualbox (win7 (64bit) host; mythbuntu 12.04.1 (64bit) guest)

[Mike Perkins]

On 08/10/12 16:04, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 10/8/2012 01:37, Robert Havlin wrote:
>> The beauty of this setup is now I can do maintenance or test new
>> configurations (in a clone) without ever bringing my operational
>> virtualbox down (i.e. frontends never know).
>
> You don't need a virtual machine to achieve that.
>
Perhaps not; but he may need another machine with exactly the same hardware to 
achieve the same result.

I personally wouldn't run mythtv on anything but bare metal. Having said that, 
I've just spent all last week installing a new Debian server with xen. I 
probably don't need that for much of what I do either, but regrettably I *do* 
need to run an instance of Windows (hack, ptoo!) occasionally and I'm not 
willing to waste hardware just for a box I'll use maybe once in six months. 
Running that as a virtual is a no-brainer.

As they say, it's horses for courses. YMMV.

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Mike Perkins