[mythtv-users] Back-end Virtualization

[Zarthan South]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Stadt <acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:

> On 10/05/2012 9:15 AM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>
>> 2012/5/10 Nathan Hawkins<nateh at thfcom.com>:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
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>>>  Hello,
>>
>> I've also tried virtualing my backend with kvm, all worked nice untill
>> I tried to pass through my hauppauge 150 pci card to the guest.
>> My host kernel paniced shortly after I booted the guest and in the
>> best case the virt-manager crapped out with a python error.
>> Anybody who had more luck with kvm and hauppauge ?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Rob
>>
>>  Actually it was the 150 that did me in as well.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
I do run Myth BE in a VM for testing but I use an HDhomerun (a network
attached tuner) so there are no issues with passthrough. I would highly
recommend the HDHR especially in a virtual setting. As long as there is
sufficient always available CPU and RAM you shouldn't have issues. If you
have multiple VMs that can potentially fight for disk IO you should
consider a hardware RAID controller and if possible split the array.
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