[mythtv-users] OT: Virtualization

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 04:03:38 UTC 2013


> Hi all, my boot/root drive is nearly the end of its life.  Looks like I will
> need to replace the drive and reinstall the OS on it.

Do you really have to reinstall? Won't a copy of the OS drive work fine?

> Don't worry my data
> drives and db files were relocated to a good drive, so my recordings/db will
> survive the transition.  My question is this, would it be worth it to think
> about visualizing my mythbackend server using xen, kvm or some of the other
> virtualization solutions out there?  My tuners are the HD homeruns, so I
> don't need to muck around with specialized linux drivers.  I am worried
> about performance, especially the HD playback performance using
> mythfrontend.  I also thought about this just adding complication to the
> server, so I am not convinced it is worth it to try to setup a virtualized
> environment, also I never played with virtualization before.  Any thoughts?
>

What would you be gaining from the virtulization?

John


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