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

[Robert Havlin]

>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 have backend on virtualbox and frontend running on an old laptop
stashed behind the tv.  Currently with the 0.25.3 version I posted, it
runs perfectly on the frontend (even over 300mbps wifi) as if it is a
combined system (remote frontend is connected via wifi).   I too
noticed this terrible slowdown in the frontends whenever I deviated
from the 0.25.3 version above.  It was particularly bad on the most
recent version of 0.26.

>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 tried troubleshooting the frontend slowdown issue, but it seemed
like it was purely due to the mythtv network protocol.  i.e. I could
play videos over the network with VLC without any problems at all, but
try to play the same thing with mythtv-frontend and it was terrible.

>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.

Me too, I'll never go back to a separate box for a backend - waste of
power and hardware as well as a pain when there is a problem with
changes/upgrades.

p.s. since I get this mailing list in batches, I never know how to
properly reply to the list.