[mythtv-users] Back-end Virtualization

[Jon Whitear]

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> Is ‘Anyone’ virtualizing their backend?! I cant believe I’m the only
> person out there who wants to do this… If you are using a VM…please
> explain how ya have things setup. If you aren’t and you feel
> inclined to contribute please add what you think the best hardware
> would be to use to accomplish this goal. Personally I think you have
> to use 64 Bit USB tuner cards/sticks (w/e ya wanna call em…) and
> then share the USB resource through the base platform thru to the
> VM. Its totally theoretical, but I have a WinTV-HVR 950 and I want
> to give it a go. Does Myth recognize these cards in the base code or
> do I have to mess around with drivers?

I think lots of people are. Mines in a KVM (and has been for a few years.) I use a network attached tuner (HD Homerun) so I have no worries about tuner hardware integration on the backend. Host hardware is somewhat irrelevant, though I have a quad core i5 w/ 12GB RAM. My host is Centos 64-bit while my guest is Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit. haven't got round to migrating the guest to 64-bit yet.

Cheers,

Jon