On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 23:41 +0100, Michiel van Baak wrote: > Forget about virtualization! > This system is running linux as base os (I conclude by the tone of your > mail) > Just install asterisk on it besides the monitoring software and be done > with it. > What do you gain by running virtualisation on it ? Nothing. > > snapshots are not bound to virtualisation. Just redo the box with lvm > and you can make snapshots with that. > > Virtualisation is nice for test-setups, but thats it. for any real job > it's a major pain in the ass and makes stuff bork beyond imagination.
I don't agree with that. Virtualisation has many benefits in the real world (eg ease of deployment and management, hardware fault tolerance when using vSphere with vMotion etc, more effective hardware utilisation, power savings, the list goes on). Having said that, I don't see the benefit of virtualisation in this particular situation unless there's a need to want to test an OS upgrade or Asterisk upgrade on the same hardware and be able to easily roll back if it didn't work. Would the VM be able to address the ISDN card directly? Not sure how well the time critical bits would work in a VM. -- Cheers, Kingsley. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users