[mythtv-users] combining hardware and still running mythtv

[Jim Abernathy]

Currently I have too many computers in my house.  The ones we use daily are 2 Mac’s and a Linux Desktop.  There are 2 mythtv FE connected to TVs and then there are the ones I want to start combining.  

My NAS is a NAS4Free server
My Mythbuntu backend is stand alone in a closet.
I have a Windows 10 system that is used rarely for games on Steam, but very rarely. I hate to scrap it.

I tried using the VirtualBox feature of NAS4Free to run mythtv, but that was very unstable on my system.

I tested successfully Mythtv as a VirtualBox VM under Windows 10, but you can’t keep windows from rebooting after updates and you can only delay these updates 35 days.  I want Mythtv to run 24/7 365.

So it occurred to me from one responder to a previous thread that maybe creating a Linux Server running Mythtv as it primary function but enable file serving features like are needed to be a NAS might be the way to go.  Maybe run NAS4Free as a VM under Linux.

does this sound doable or am I just drinking too much whiskey?

Jim A