[mythtv-users] Back-end Virtualization

[Raymond Wagner]

On 5/11/2012 14:34, Simon Hobson wrote:
> By all means point out alternative (for some situations) and pitfalls,
> but please stop telling people they are wrong because they don't agree
> with you - for that is how you are coming across.

Gentoo packages their base install as a "stage 3" tarball.  It's a fully 
functioning system minus a few config files for startup.  Make a folder, 
download the tarball, unpack the tarball into the folder, and chroot 
into it running bash.  This is actually the standard install procedure.

Build MythTV and dependencies using portage inside the chroot.  Mount 
your storage disks inside the chroot.  Mount instances of procfs and 
sysfs inside the chroot.  Mount your /dev folder inside the chroot.  All 
you have to do after that is instead of running `mythbackend`, you run 
`chroot /base/path mythbackend`.  All the convenience of a separate 
Gentoo installation, dedicated to MythTV, for ease of management, but 
none of the hardware access difficulties that come from a full virtual 
machine.

Replace Gentoo with your distro of choice in the above.