[mythtv-users] Virtualized MythTV
Josh White
jaw1959 at gmail.com
Fri May 2 22:31:20 UTC 2008
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Danie Brink <danie.brink at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Thanks for all the responses :-)
>
> A bit more info:
> The 20 apartments have 2-6 TVs each, in total I'm dealing with 67 TVs and
> thats just phase 1 of 3. Each apartment has its own coax feed plus 2GB
> backhaul, each TV outlet also has a gigabit port. All the TV here is analog
> cable, no digital available (Satellite is too glitchy in this tropical
> weather without a dish big enough to block the view).
>
> John:
> I'm pretty sure I can get a Plextor TV402U's USB connection piped to the
> right machine under Xen, I do it with USB scanners & printers all the time,
> for PCI I've had some Adaptec & LSI RAID cards assigned to specific VM's by
> filtering access to the PCI slot in Xen, my biggest concerns are load and if
> anyone knows of any specific quirks running MythTV under Xen.
>
> Jay:
> Combined BE/FEs with that many TVs is just too expensive, I looked at the
> HDHomeRun but its digital-only and we need analog. I also want to give each
> of the apartments some storage space for their own photos & music.
>
> Jre:
> Sorry - my writing was a bit confusing I meant: 2x Xeon Quad-Core 3GHz per
> machine.
>
> On the whole it seems worth at least a good test, I've got 2 comparable
> servers coming in in two weeks, I'll get hold of at least two Plextor TV402U
> as well and see what happens. I also want to try out the MediaMVP for a FE,
> I'll let you all know how it goes.
>
> Danie
>
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> Has anyone found myth to be stable enough to support such a thing? I have
enough trouble keeping my 4 frontends working...
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