<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Tom Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thom.j.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">thom.j.harris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I’m starting to think about transitioning to 0.28 and it might be a good time to consolidate the backend into a hypervisor. So, I’m wondering if others have made this move and know the potholes to avoid?<div><br></div><div> My tuner is a HDHomerun, so no issues with device support. And I save my recordings to a NFS share on my NAS.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m thinking of using an LXC container running Ubuntu 16.04. Any reason to opt for a full KVM VM instead?<br></div></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I virtualized my BE to a VMWare VM running on ESXi a while back and am very happy with the results. I use an HDHomeRun. I've been thinking about putting an STB back into the mix because MAVTV HD is encrypted and crashes my backend when I try tuning to it, so I may have some complaints in the future when I try to get USB pass-through working. But I would highly recommend a virtualized backend.</div><div><br></div><div>Has anybody successfully put a backend in a container? I tried getting it working in Docker a few months ago without much success. </div></div></div></div>