[mythtv-users] Mythtv and Virtualbox?

[Jim Abernathy]

I have a mythtv frontend/backend, but don’t really use that system to watch TV.  Mainly I use remote frontends. I also have a NAS4free NAS to store household computer backups and Mythtv video archives.

When my NAS APC UPS bit the dust, I thought about consolidating hardware. Since neither the NAS nor mythtv backend require large powerful computers, I thought about running NAS4free as a virtual machine under the same Ubuntu system that is running mythtv.  Or I could use the virtualbox option on NAS4free to run mythbuntu as a virtual machine.

I would use a Core i7 3Ghz 8GB DRAM based system to run all this.  I’d save one computer and one UPS.

Anyone have experience with this and could share some guidance??

Jim A