[mythtv-users] Backend on a VM

[Steve Greene]

Excellent point about the complexity. That's my other thought, just build a
new box for the BE and share peripherals with a KVM switch.

Steve

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On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:39 PM Håkon Alstadheim <hakon at alstadheim.priv.no>
wrote:

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> Den 03. okt. 2018 02:25, skrev Tom Bishop:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 6:59 PM Steve Greene <sgreene820 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:sgreene820 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Unfortunately, all of my existing tuners are PCI-express cards. So
> >     I'm screwed?
> >
> >
> > No its still posibble to passthrough a pci device, just have to have
> > the hardware and software thats capable of doing it.  Its more work
> > but still possible, depending on which virtualization you are going to
> > use, google should return lots of information and how tos.
> >
> I'm running a pcie tuner in a Xen VM. Need bleeding edge software and io
> virtualization.
> <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#I/O_MMU_virtualization_(AMD-Vi_and_Intel_VT-d)
> >
> . Works well once the bleeding is over with. Interesting, but a separate
> box would probably be simpler&cheaper.  Main benefit for my private
> setup has been all hard-drives in one box, so repurposing for different
> usage (mythtv storage or other stuff) is convenient. Disk through-put in
> Xen has been kind of sucky, getting better, recent kernel in both host
> and guest helps a lot.
>
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