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

[Krys Allen]

I have been running my myth backend server on vmware for the last few
months, everything works as it should and I am even passing my Ceton USB
tuner through to the myth server. There really is no reason why running
virtual should cause any issues except if you try to run a frontend and
actually play media files. The reason I am running mine in vmware is I
wanted to be able to move my tuner back and forth between Mythtv and a
Nextpvr to test both pieces of software, vmware allows me to move my usb
tuner with a click of a button.

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Mike Perkins <
> mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 08/10/12 16:04, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/8/2012 01:37, Robert Havlin wrote:
>>>
>>>> The beauty of this setup is now I can do maintenance or test new
>>>> configurations (in a clone) without ever bringing my operational
>>>> virtualbox down (i.e. frontends never know).
>>>>
>>>
>>> You don't need a virtual machine to achieve that.
>>>
>>>  Perhaps not; but he may need another machine with exactly the same
>> hardware to achieve the same result.
>>
>> I personally wouldn't run mythtv on anything but bare metal. Having said
>> that, I've just spent all last week installing a new Debian server with
>> xen. I probably don't need that for much of what I do either, but
>> regrettably I *do* need to run an instance of Windows (hack, ptoo!)
>> occasionally and I'm not willing to waste hardware just for a box I'll use
>> maybe once in six months. Running that as a virtual is a no-brainer.
>>
>> As they say, it's horses for courses. YMMV.
>
>
> I also got mythtv running on VirtualBox.  I had to install some older
> version of ubuntu and mythtv for testing purposes.  Works fine and not
> unbearably slow.  I didn't have to deal with linux device drivers since my
> tuner is just a standalone HDHomerun network device.
>
>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Perkins
>>
>>
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