[mythtv-users] Hmmmm

[Jason Ward]

On 3 July 2010 03:18, Christian Szpilfogel <chrisznews4 at rogers.com> wrote:

> On 02/07/2010 3:18 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> On Friday, July 02, 2010 12:44:49 pm Jason Ward wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Since Mythbyntu describes itself as a stripped down system specifically
>>> to
>>> run MythTV I had assumed it was indeed an appliance distro.
>>>
>>> I keep hearing people say they run their back ends as VM's, how do you do
>>> that?  I though specialised hardware (like turners) were not avialable
>>> inside a VM?
>>>
>>>
>> Tuners can be accessed per Brian's commented below. Setting up myth as a
> guest in a VM is trivial once you have a VM environment going. The best part
> of a VM is the snapshot ability where before any major change you can make a
> snapshot of the existing image and if all hell breaks loose, you can revert
> to it. For example, database mods, code mods, updates, etc. It has saved my
> bacon more than once. The master backend is the most important one to
> virtualize as it is the heart of the system.
>
> It makes me wonder if MythTV could be distributed as a ready made virtual
appliance.
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