[mythtv-users] OT: Virtualization

[Raymond Wagner]

On 7/4/2013 2:07 PM, jacek burghardt wrote:
> I believe we all can agree that virtualisation is great for development
> and testing. We can test newer version of mythtv without messing up our
> main box.

I can easily spawn a new jail (paravirtualization) with its own 
filesystem and IP address to work on development. I actually do have 
several of these set up for use with various branches. Since all I'm 
doing is running MythTV in an isolated memory space, it takes about two 
seconds to start one up. My master backend sits in another jail, and 
should the need arise, I can shut it down, roll back to a previous 
snapshot, and bring it back up, all in about ten seconds.

There is merit to isolation. There is merit to consolidation. However 
both of these can be accomplished without a full virtual machine.