[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network - ready for mainstream?
Simon Hobson
linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed Sep 2 14:31:07 UTC 2009
Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>Virtualization is ready but MythTV might not be. I've had great
>success with virtual machines for Monowall, MySQL, OpenFiler, and many
>other services that Myth relies on, but if you're using PCI/PCIe based
>tuners, forget it. There isn't, IMO, a reliable way to get those
>tuners to perform in a virtual environment. Now if you're using a
>HDHomeRun, that's a whole different story and you may have great
>success because it is network based.
FWIW I have a complete backend with single PCI tuner running in a VM under Xen.
System is :
AMD64-2000, Xen 3.2.1-2~bpo4+1, Debian Etch with 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64
kernel, 4G ram
Myth system is Debian Lenny with 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 kernel and myth
installed from debian-multimedia.fx-services.com repository. Tuner is
PVR-1100, passed through to guest with pciback. 768M ram.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte board with 939 socket and nVidia chipsets.
OK, it's not exactly the most heavily laden Myth system, but it's
been quite reliable. It can certainly combine a recording,
commgflagging, and single frontend playback without problem.
I guess it's very much YMMV !
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