[mythtv-users] ***SPAM*** Re: mythbackend in a docker container

[Paul Gardiner]

On 05/11/2023 15:54, James Abernathy wrote:
> Before I moved my production MythTV backend to V34-Master I had it at 
> v33 with a test PC running v34-master during the development of the new 
> Webapp.  To make that simpler, I started using the test backend on that 
> PC with KVM.
> 
> The problem was my test PC was always being rebuilt with the Disto of 
> the week.  I decided to have another SSD installed with all my media on 
> one partition and all my KVM stuff on the other partition.  So to test a 
> new Distro without having to rebuild Mythtv I just installed the distro, 
> installed KVM, and add the VM backend from the KVM partition.
> 
> With the setup I could even have multiple VMs each with a different 
> distro from the host to test different versions of Mythtv and install 
> scripts.  I used both Ubuntu with the mythbuntu ppa on one VM and Debian 
> with build from packages on another. I even tested Archlinux and mythtv 
> from the AUR on one VM.

That's interesting. It's very useful to hear about these usage cases. It 
gives me some options that now I at least know are possible. I'm 
increasingly thinking that KVM is the way to go, rather than docker. I 
think with docker there might be potential problems with updates to the 
host affecting the containers.

Paul.