2022-09-02, 06:29
Short story: Long time user of another product, with which a growing dissatisfaction and the latest experience has me looking for new, and immediate, solution.
Will be doing a clean VM on a DL380p G8 (2x E5-2640 v2) with ESXi 7.0.3-20036589 (8 vCPU limit) with functional testing over the next week or so.
Main usage is on LAN via an old Tab S3 (SM-T827V R0.2, Android 9), with occasional iOS tablet and local browser.
Would be nice to get old Roku2/3 usable again (other product 'outgrew' them) but is not a deal breaker.
What I am looking for here is experienced opinions and suggestions for is:
Otherwise, thank you for your time, and I look forward to reviewing your responses.
Will be doing a clean VM on a DL380p G8 (2x E5-2640 v2) with ESXi 7.0.3-20036589 (8 vCPU limit) with functional testing over the next week or so.
Main usage is on LAN via an old Tab S3 (SM-T827V R0.2, Android 9), with occasional iOS tablet and local browser.
Would be nice to get old Roku2/3 usable again (other product 'outgrew' them) but is not a deal breaker.
What I am looking for here is experienced opinions and suggestions for is:
- best VM client OS to host Kodi server
- unless there are viable assistant apps that have to run with Kodi, this VM will only be for Kodi
- smooth performance for 2-4 concurrent streams/transcodes is a must.
- unless there are viable assistant apps that have to run with Kodi, this VM will only be for Kodi
- Kodi BP tips and bolo's that frequently get overlooked or underutilized
- I did notice in passing a mention of utilizing MySQL for Kodi's DB
- how stable is this vs using the 'default'
- is a 'default' DB easily migrated to MySQL or would a new instance need to be created?
- can it be shared/maintained between instances if I had to redo (or run a 2nd) 'server' VM?
- how stable is this vs using the 'default'
- I did notice in passing a mention of utilizing MySQL for Kodi's DB
Otherwise, thank you for your time, and I look forward to reviewing your responses.