[mythtv-users] combining hardware and still running mythtv
Jim Abernathy
jfabernathy at outlook.com
Thu Jan 4 19:28:04 UTC 2018
Currently I have too many computers in my house. The ones we use daily are 2 Mac’s and a Linux Desktop. There are 2 mythtv FE connected to TVs and then there are the ones I want to start combining.
My NAS is a NAS4Free server
My Mythbuntu backend is stand alone in a closet.
I have a Windows 10 system that is used rarely for games on Steam, but very rarely. I hate to scrap it.
I tried using the VirtualBox feature of NAS4Free to run mythtv, but that was very unstable on my system.
I tested successfully Mythtv as a VirtualBox VM under Windows 10, but you can’t keep windows from rebooting after updates and you can only delay these updates 35 days. I want Mythtv to run 24/7 365.
So it occurred to me from one responder to a previous thread that maybe creating a Linux Server running Mythtv as it primary function but enable file serving features like are needed to be a NAS might be the way to go. Maybe run NAS4Free as a VM under Linux.
does this sound doable or am I just drinking too much whiskey?
Jim A
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