[mythtv-users] Mythtv and Virtualbox?

Jim Abernathy jfabernathy at outlook.com
Sun Dec 11 14:47:38 UTC 2016


> On Dec 11, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:21:02 +0000, you wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Unless you are using only network tuners, you will not be able to run
> MythTV under VirtualBox.  It is possible to use USB passthrough now in
> VirtualBox, so you might be able to get USB tuners to work also.  But
> normal tuner hardware will not be accessible.
> 

So it might be possible to run NAS4free in a virtualbox machine on the mythbuntu 16.04.1 machine. That would solve the tuner card problem.

Jim A

> The hardware would be fine for running MythTV, and it is likely that
> the only problem with running a virtual machine as well would be how
> much RAM you needed to devote to the virtual machine.  I have no idea
> how much RAM NAS4free might need.  If the MythTV setup does not get
> too busy (eg recording six things at once and doing commercial skip
> processing on them at the same time), then it is not unlikely that the
> box would be fine for running a virtual machine as well.
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