[mythtv-users] Mythbackend successfully running on virtualbox (win7 (64bit) host; mythbuntu 12.04.1 (64bit) guest)

[Andrew Leech]

On 8/10/12 4:37 PM, Robert Havlin wrote:
> Just an FYI, it required multiple installation attempts (but that is 
> easy with virtualbox) but I eventually got it working with the following:
>
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> A few other things - mounting my old ext3 and ext4 drives worked and 
> could be mounted by the guest, but for some reason the rate was slow 
> (3-4 MBps), so I migrated all of it to "Shared folders" which actually 
> reside in the host but are mounted by the guest.
> Finally, make sure to set the guest network card to "bridged adapter" 
> so that it gets its own ip address, mac, etc. and everything passes 
> transparently to the guest.
>
Have you noticed any slowdown in the frontends on things like starting 
playback, skipping back/forward etc? Are your frontends all remote, or 
is this a combined frontend/backend machine?

I've got a combined system as main tv and I've noticed big differences 
in frontend responsiveness when I make changes to disk setup. In 
particular, I still remember the massive performance boost I got when I 
got rid of LVM.

I very much like the idea of safe update testing, I'm always pretty wary 
when doing updates as my backup system isn't very pleasant to reimage from.

Andrew