[mythtv-users] OT: Virtualization

[Phill Edwards]

> 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.  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?

You will receive plenty of replies on whether you should or shouldn't,
so I'll leave that to others. I have virtualised mine on XenServer v6
and it works great. I've had no performance issues though my
recordings are mostly SD not HD. I'm using HD Homerun as it's too
difficult/impossible to get PCI passthrough working for PCI tuner
cards. Overall, I'm really happy with it.