[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network -- ready for mainstream?

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:26 AM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> One other consideration (what I use) should be openvz. This is
> basically a chroot jail that offers independent networking so that the
> guests look as independent machines from the host. I use this heavily
> at work also at home on the mythtv box. Although myth is on the HN
> (hardware node), I do have a cvs/svn server on one guest and a mail
> server on a second host. One nice thing about openvz is that you will
> not notice the performance hit in the guests unlike every other
> visualization technique I have ever used (vmware, kvm, virtualbox,xen,
> qemu,bochs).
>

Should have read "mailserver on a second guest"

Here is a link:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page

BTW, I am using the latest git 2.6.27 openvz kernel. I doubt that the
"stable" 2.6.18 kernel will even work on my machine and it certainly
will not do ext4dev. This version is quite stable although I am
getting a little frustrated that development has slowed down
considerably. Months ago they were updating  weekly.

Also I use the linuxtv-v4l-dvb drivers instead of the in kernel
drivers for my ivtv and digital cards, this way I am using the latest
drivers even though my kernel was released 10 months ago.

-- 
John M. Drescher