I think you might have misunderstood my point. From a horsepower perspective you are right. However, from a latency perspective, virtual machines suffer from too much skew in their timeslices.
If the server is performing background tasks the impact is unperceivable. If the server is performing real-time tasks, then the impact will be dramatic (like choppy voice). In an extreme case, if you have enough horsepower combined with few other tasks/VM's on the same machine, your timeslices may be consistent enough to make real-time processing acceptable. Don't count on it however! The bottom line is that PC virtualization and real-time applications don't mix. You are better off with less horsepower without latency issues. MD -----Original Message----- From: Greg Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:19 PM To: Technical Support; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.6, VMWare, & Playback/BackgroundGSM prompts On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:08 -0500, Technical Support wrote: > You can't reliably run a real-time application (like asterisk) on a > virtual machine. You will get better performance from an old PC than > a VM on a new top-end PC. Sorry > > MD Hmmmm, I would have to say a properly configured GSX server running on Linux will run almost any OS and outperform and old PC. So you may want to go with GSX vs. Workstation if you don't just have a PC you can put * on by itself. -Greg _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
