On 05/11/2023 15:54, James Abernathy wrote:
> Before I moved my production MythTV backend to V34-Master I had it at
> v33 with a test PC running v34-master during the development of the new
> Webapp. To make that simpler, I started using the test backend on that
> PC with KVM.
>
> The problem was my test PC was always being rebuilt with the Disto of
> the week. I decided to have another SSD installed with all my media on
> one partition and all my KVM stuff on the other partition. So to test a
> new Distro without having to rebuild Mythtv I just installed the distro,
> installed KVM, and add the VM backend from the KVM partition.
>
> With the setup I could even have multiple VMs each with a different
> distro from the host to test different versions of Mythtv and install
> scripts. I used both Ubuntu with the mythbuntu ppa on one VM and Debian
> with build from packages on another. I even tested Archlinux and mythtv
> from the AUR on one VM.
That's interesting. It's very useful to hear about these usage cases. It
gives me some options that now I at least know are possible. I'm
increasingly thinking that KVM is the way to go, rather than docker. I
think with docker there might be potential problems with updates to the
host affecting the containers.
Paul.
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> Before I moved my production MythTV backend to V34-Master I had it at
> v33 with a test PC running v34-master during the development of the new
> Webapp. To make that simpler, I started using the test backend on that
> PC with KVM.
>
> The problem was my test PC was always being rebuilt with the Disto of
> the week. I decided to have another SSD installed with all my media on
> one partition and all my KVM stuff on the other partition. So to test a
> new Distro without having to rebuild Mythtv I just installed the distro,
> installed KVM, and add the VM backend from the KVM partition.
>
> With the setup I could even have multiple VMs each with a different
> distro from the host to test different versions of Mythtv and install
> scripts. I used both Ubuntu with the mythbuntu ppa on one VM and Debian
> with build from packages on another. I even tested Archlinux and mythtv
> from the AUR on one VM.
That's interesting. It's very useful to hear about these usage cases. It
gives me some options that now I at least know are possible. I'm
increasingly thinking that KVM is the way to go, rather than docker. I
think with docker there might be potential problems with updates to the
host affecting the containers.
Paul.
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