Agreed. Asterisk inside a VMWare is not the right place. If you just want to screw around with Asterisk maybe you can use VMWare and get it to work with 75% usability but trust me your customers will be complaining about that 25%.
If you are SERIOUS about Asterisk grab an old 200-800Mhz PC and put RH8 on it. We fought with RH9 when several top members of the Asterisk community said to stay with RH8. We lost over a week by ignoring recommendations from Asterisk experts. I run VMWare day in and day out. 20+ different Windows and Linux VMWare's running on a RH OS. I even run production MS SQL Server in VMWare. Big difference between SQL Server and Asterisk. SQL Server does not require any access to custom hardware and a little emulation latency is not critical for a small time used DB. VMWare is going to have to work 4X as hard as a dedicated system when you start piling on codec users. That 4X is going to cause a lot of latency, popping, packet drops, and choppy voice. Erik > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Sigurd > Karlsbakk > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 4:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Again Asterisk and VMWare - it works now! > > > IIRC you were given URLs for all sorts of cheapo PCs. Perhaps you've got > an old P90 lying around? Or perhaps someone else has? > > Use that! > Not vmware! > If you're to use vmware, do it the other way around - linux host with > vmware windoze guest. This works fine for me on my PC. > > On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 08:49, Dan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have succeed using Asterisk on VMWare on an [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 128 MB > > allocated for the Linux virtual machine. > > I have connected this PBX with another one using IAX/GSM. I can call the > > other part and the sound is great, without any interruption. > > The phone used is a Cisco7960 with G.711, so still a codec > conversion is in > > place (GSM/G.711) and Asterisk/VMWare Wkst performs very well. > > > > The problem is only when I try to call local services, like echo test or > > Digium Demo. Then, the sound of the informative message for the > Digium Demo > > is choppy, but the sound from the Digium server (after > connection) is very > > good. > > > > So.. the problem is only to play local files when in virtual > machine (menus, > > informative messages, etc.). Why? It is clear that this is not > a computer > > performance issue and/or a timing problem during the codec conversion. > > More, the inband DTMF works like a charm under the virtual > machine. Even the > > known problem with double digits for Cisco phones dissapear. > > > > BR, > > Dan > > P.S. Please do not answer again that this setup cannot work. In > this moment > > I cannot accept such an answer. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
