[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network -- ready for mainstream?

[Travis Tabbal]

I've been watching this thread with interest. I'm in the beginning of
setting up a new server with some teeth. Actually built from nice parts
rather than what I had laying around or was cheap at the time. :) Current
hardware:

AMD Phenom 2 X3 720 (2.8Ghz 3-core)
8GB ECC RAM
Asus M4N82 Motherboard

Those bits are currently running memtest86 for the next day or so to make
sure they are working well. Any other stress tests that might be a good
idea?

I will be adding 2 8-port SATA cards to run the 12 drive rack I have
installed in the case. The drives will be in 2 6-disk arrays. The boot
drives will run from the motherboard ports in a mirror.

I know I want OpenSolaris for raidz and zfs. I would like to have this same
machine run other services like a mythbackend (primarily for commflagging
and transcoding, but I might move the master backend to this server) that
don't seem to really exist for Solaris. I could probably build the source
and get just a backend running, but it would be faster for me to run a VM
with Linux so I can use a package for it. I also like the idea of
partitioning things like Asterisk off into VMs for ease of setup and the
security concerns.

It seems to me I could get this all working with OpenSolaris as Dom0 with
Linux guests. Does this seem like a reasonable solution? Any hints for
configuration?
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