Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-21 Thread Kingsley Tart
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

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-21 Thread Faris Raouf
We have been successfully using Asterisk (1.6.0.x) in a heavily loaded Virtuozzo (= commercial OpenVZ) environment for over a year. I'm sure we aren't the only ones to do so. We had some terrible problems with random one-way audio a few minutes into some calls to start with, which I was worried

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-21 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:06 -0800, Jim Dickenson wrote: My development system for asterisk is a virtual CentOS 5.4 world running under Fusion on my MacBook. I am usually only doing a few calls at a time. I have an IAX trunk to our office Asterisk PBX so I can access the PRI line there. I do

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-21 Thread Connor Spiess
-Original Message- From: Felix Tiefenthaler [mailto:tiefenthale...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:29 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation Hi all! I've been reading this list for a few weeks

[asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Felix Tiefenthaler
Hi all! I've been reading this list for a few weeks and now this is my first post. :-) I'm planning to build a new VoIP telephone system at our company. It's just a small company with not more than 3-4 employees. The telephone system is not so important for us because each employee has

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 23:28, Wed 20 Jan 10, Felix Tiefenthaler wrote: Hi all! I've been reading this list for a few weeks and now this is my first post. :-) I'm planning to build a new VoIP telephone system at our company. It's just a small company with not more than 3-4 employees. The telephone system

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Danny Nicholas
Baak Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:42 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation On 23:28, Wed 20 Jan 10, Felix Tiefenthaler wrote: Hi all! I've been reading this list for a few weeks and now this is my first post. :-) I'm

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Gergo Csibra
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:41:48 PM, Michiel wrote: Forget about virtualization! ... 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. Well. Why do you use computer? There're slide-rule. You can

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Gergo Csibra wrote: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:41:48 PM, Michiel wrote: Forget about virtualization! ... 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. Well. Why do

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Lyle Giese
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Gergo Csibra wrote: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:41:48 PM, Michiel wrote: Forget about virtualization! ... Virtualisation is nice for test-setups, but thats it. for any real job it's a major pain in the ass and makes

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Gergo Csibra
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 12:53:09 AM, Jeff wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Gergo Csibra wrote: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:41:48 PM, Michiel wrote: Forget about virtualization! ... Virtualisation is nice for test-setups, but thats it. for any real job it's a major pain in the ass and

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Jim Dickenson
My development system for asterisk is a virtual CentOS 5.4 world running under Fusion on my MacBook. I am usually only doing a few calls at a time. I have an IAX trunk to our office Asterisk PBX so I can access the PRI line there. I do meetme rooms and recording of calls and all seems to work

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Warren Selby
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Felix Tiefenthaler tiefenthale...@gmail.com wrote: Now my big question: What kind of virtualization should I run on the Server? I have already used VMware ESXi and Proxmox. It would be very nice if there was a way to make snapshots (for backup purposes).

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Warren Selby
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Michiel van Baak mich...@vanbaak.infowrote: 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. You're right, I doubt that whole Amazon cloud thing will ever catch

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Warren Selby
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@jeff.net wrote: Pretty crappy analogy. Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean it is production ready. But then the OP said it wasn't all that important, so I would say go Xen and tell us how it works out. I think you will

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread randall
On 01/20/2010 11:28 PM, Felix Tiefenthaler wrote: Hi all! I've been reading this list for a few weeks and now this is my first post. :-) I'm planning to build a new VoIP telephone system at our company. It's just a small company with not more than 3-4 employees. The telephone system is not