[mythtv-users] Back-end Virtualization
Zarthan South
zarthan at gmail.com
Fri May 11 15:22:30 UTC 2012
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Nathan Hawkins <nateh at thfcom.com> wrote:
> The Virtual software I have standardized on personally/professionally is
> Oracle’s Virtual Box. It’s free and unbelievably well supported. If you are
> having issues (I think its better than VMWare…) give it a go. The hardware
> I tend to build for my VM boxes are Intel quad cores with as much memory as
> my motherboards will handle (typically Kingston or Viking with the aluminum
> exterior heat sinks). Motherboards are all ASUS (great products, very well
> supported, last literally years) and I usually go with the absolute
> cheapest SATA 7200 64 MB cache HDDs I can find but brand new and then set
> them up in a RAID 5 volume so even if one fails I don’t lose my data.****
>
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> *From:* mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:
> mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf Of *Phill Edwards
> *Sent:* Friday, May 11, 2012 5:33 AM
> *To:* Discussion about MythTV
>
> *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] Back-end Virtualization****
>
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> Is anyone here using Xenserver or are all the success stories on VMware?**
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I assume you already have the tuner. It only takes a few minutes to install
a Myth VM especially if you use one of the myth enabled distros like
Mythbuntu so give it a try. If you don't already have the tuner HDhomerun
totally eliminates any passthrough issues.
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