Hi, >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steven Critchfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Ahh, but the question is worded such that the virtualization is running > on windows. Therefore you have a lot of display overhead due to a > windows environment. You also are just an application running in an OS, > so you have to convince the OS to give you appropriate resources. So > while the application isn't necessarily too inefficient, you are already > running in an OS that can starve your emulator, and then you have > another OS that can starve asterisk from running at the required speed.
I have done some tests in the past: - Athlon [EMAIL PROTECTED], 384MB RAM - Windows XP Pro as the host platform - VMWare Workstation version3 - Asterisk (a CVS from Oktober I think) - RH9 - no Digium Hardware (cannot be used with a virtual platform) - two analog phones connected to an ATA186 > > Again, it is possible, just not recommended no matter what the > underlying hardware is. Give asterisk at least a chance of working > properly on its own before you handicap it. As the learning curve is > enough already, don't augment it by adding artificial barriers. Major drawbacks: - the cost of the virtualization platform (VMWare or something else) is bigger than a good old dedicated hardware platform. - no way to use any Digium hardware, which is in my opinion unacceptable - the load on the system is far bigger than on a dedicated one (increase dramatically with the number of active channels). As a conclusion: - it was a nice proof of concept - works preatty well for small demo's on a notebook (at the customer site), but for sure not as a production (even for home) environment. - can be used to better understand how Asterisk works - all those if you want to pay the price for the virtualization platform. Best regards, Dan _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
