[mythtv-users] Maintain Mythtv Uptime using Virtual Machine; Possible?
Gordon McLellan
gordonthree at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 18:31:38 UTC 2008
Steve:
I had (still have actually) a tunerless mythtv master-backend server
running as a Xen virtual machine (pvm), and nothing special was done
during the install. The guest OS is Centos 5.2, and I'm using myth
from the atrpms repository. That myth setup is no longer active, but
I have the server running still so I can access the recorded shows.
Network filesystem issues caused me to abandon this setup ... I was
running the tunerless master backend, and a slave backend + frontend
remotely over a gigabit link. The slave machine didn't have the
stones to handle gigabit network IO and manage the dual tuner pvr-500
card - the time kept getting messed up, to the point I was running
ntpdate every 15 min via cron to make sure my recordings were more or
less on time. There were also some other database related quirks,
which may or may not have been caused by an "unsupported"
configuration. IMHO: I'm not sure how a product with no official
support can have unsupported configurations, but that's probably a
topic of discussion beyond the scope of this list.
$0.02,
Gordon
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM, lists_mythtv_users
<lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk> wrote:
> I need to install a new distro on my backend server. I only have one
> backend containing all my tuners. The mysql server is already on a VM
> that I can move to a different host on my LAN. Is it possible to create
> a VM and create a tunerless master backend on it so that mythtv can
> still be used on my LAN to watch existing recordings while the real
> mythtv server is down for a rebuild?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve.
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