[mythtv-users] combining hardware and still running mythtv

[Jim Abernathy]

On Jan 4, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com<mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hoi Jim,

Thursday, January 4, 2018, 8:28:04 PM, you wrote:

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

Very doable, although why not run it al on the same Linux server
without VMs. I run Myth, Samba, bind, ldap, dhcpserver etc al on the
same Linux box without any trouble. An older Athlon II X2 system with
6Gb of memory (although 4 would suffice) and lots of disk space in
raid1 with lvm on top. Extremely flexible and sturdy.



So the Mythtv backend is easy on a linux server.  Samba is okay, but I've had tons of permission problems from Macs and Linux machines in the past, so I have NFS for the Linux Machines and AFP for the Macs.  That’s why NAS4Free is so nice.  I have a ZFS mirror for critical stuff and just drives for recordings and other media.  Each service (CIFS, NFS, AFP) has it’s own list of shares.  It even supports the Mac Timeshare/TimeCapsule replacement.

Problems are don’t think I can create AFP with Timeshare capability on a Linux Server without a lot of work and stability issues.  NAS4Free with ZFS is a memory and processor hog.  So virtualizing N4F may not be doable on my hardware.

All of this could be solved with lots of money, but I have to save the money for bourbon. :-)

Jim A



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 Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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