[mythtv-users] combining hardware and still running mythtv

[Jay Foster]

On 1/4/2018 11:28 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> 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
>
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I run linux on my "desktop" and use that as a backup server for all of 
my machines (separate drives).  I also run Windows in a VM on linux for 
the few applications that are Windows only, which would avoid your 
Windows 10 reboot issue.  I use samba shares so Windows can access the 
linux (host) file system.
Jay