Agreed. Do not try and run Asterisk within VMWare. I use VMWare day in and day out but VMWare (even GSX) is not the place to be running Asterisk.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare > > > Hi John, > > Thanks for your effort to make me buy Call Manager..:-) > Maybe a 2K$ server with a couple of 2+ GHZ Xeons and 4GB of RAM > will be good > enough to run just the Web interface of the Call Manager... > If running a maximum of two simultaneous audio calls through Asterisk > installed over VMWare is a far too big job for my computer, then > you're right. > > In between I have found an old Compaq Armada notebook who does > the job very > well, but unfortunately without any possibility to add any Digium hardware > to it. > > Thanks to all of you who have tried to answer me to my question and I > consider this issue closed. > > Dan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Laur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 5:49 PM > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare > > > > Dan, > > > > Your problems are all the result of your computer and your software. > > It's not going to work for you in your setup. Repeat: It's not going to > > work for you in your setup. Repeat again for increased clarity: It's not > > going to work for you in your setup. I really don't understand why you > > keep asking the question because you keep getting the same answer from > > every single person. For the $299 that VMWare costs, you can build a > > barebones machine with a small HDD that is sufficient to run asterisk. > > Even if you'd rather run it all on the same machine, IT IS THE ONLY WAY > > YOU WILL GET ASTERISK TO RUN PROPERLY. VMware Workstation is NOT > > DESIGNED to do this kind of job. As I said in a post before, VMWare GSX > > Server which is designed to do this sort of thing (but still may be > > insufficient for asterisk) is priced at $2500. If you bought a support > > contract from VMWare, they'd tell you the same thing. > > > > Software running inside of VMWare with a Win32 host is not going to give > > you good performance when it needs to be interactive, and Asterisk needs > > to be interactive a lot of the time. No matter how many performance > > tweaks you make to the Win32 box, you're still going to have problems > > with asterisk. With the amount of RAM you have, Windows WILL swap the > > VM's main memory to disk after a while. This will cause you > > insurmountable performance problems with asterisk or any service-type > > application running in the VM. You can look at a SIP-Proxy only solution > > like SEP that doesn't do transcoding or IVR and maybe get things working > > IF you can figure out how to force windows to never swap VMWare to disk > > (ie buy another 640MB of ram and force VMWare to run in the highest > > priority even in the background) > > > > Here are your options. Both one of these will give you a 100% working > > solution to your problem: > > > > 1) Return VMWare if you have already purchased it for this purpose and > > use the $299 to build a standalone computer suitable for the task. If > > you don't want to build one, you can buy one already built: > > > > http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MC1740-1 > > > > 2) Purchase a VoIP or IVR application that runs and is supported under > > Windows that suits your purpose. If you need all the functionality that > > Asterisk provides, are stuck on Windows, and already have some cisco > > equipment, I hear that they have a product called "CallManager" that > > might do what you need :) > > > > No amount of belief on your part is going to make your computer and > > VMWare do this. > > > > John > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan > > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 3:23 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > 1. run VMWARE in Full screen windows. > > > Tried this... same problem > > > > > > > 2. is your Linux kernel SMP? (see VM knowledge base) > > > I have the RH9 downloaded from Redhat site. > > > > > > > 3. what about your Linux guest CPU usage? Swap usage? Windows might > > > > report 5% but its what the linux guest sees that counts. VMWARE is a > > > > very good emulation but it is still an emulation. Doing near real > > time > > > > codec conversion on a AMD <1GH machine with 386MB might be too much. > > > I'll check this, but still I don't think that the CPU power or memory > > is > > > the > > > problem, more the interrupts and timing... > > > > > > > 4. Did you do bridge networking on the guest OS? NAT will invoke > > > > additional performance penalty, and have a big effect on your SIP > > call. > > > Bridging, using another IP address from the same subnet. > > > > > > > 5. What about the other "cards" in your system? Do they need a lot > > of > > > > interrupts from the PC? Check your perfmon for interrupts per > > second. > > > > CPU usage is only one piece of the pie. > > > I think yes, a lot of interrupts are shared between cards..... > > > I have: > > > - 1x Firewire, 2xUSB2.0, 1xUSB1.1, PCI Soft modem, USB Modem, 4xSerial > > > Ports, 1xgraphic card + TV Tunner (ATI All-in-Wonder 128) and a HA Box > > > (serial based). > > > I have succeeeded using USB under VMWare (a flash memory stick) , but > > > still > > > not able to use ztdummy or zaptelrtc (it uses USB for timing, not?) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users