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 so important for us because each employee > has it's own mobile phone. > > Because our company is a small one, we don't want to/we can't buy an > expensive phone system. So we are going to use Asterisk. > Additionally we don't want to obtain extra hardware. We have already a > Server running with Linux (for Network monitoring). > Because it's a waste to use this Server just for monitoring I thought > about virtualizing. Now I want to run a machine with monitoring > and a machine with Asterisk on this Server. I already bought a ISDN > Card (berofix 400) with a S0 module. > > 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). > I read about clock problems (physical time != virtual time) and so on. > If I'm right this does not matter when using OpenVZ but when using > KVM, XEN, ESX, ... > > Please tell me your opinion. I definitely want to run the Asterisk via > virtualization - so we have to find a solution for this ;-) > > Thank you very much! > > felix > > i never tried it for real, but i'm in the progress of setting up a PBX system and decided to go with a dedicated box since i need more pci slots then my regular virtualised box could provide.
However, i have heard that many have succesfully used asterisk on a VServer, which i usually use when installing new services. have some old notes in the link below and the testing setup worked fine. VServer is more an advanced chroot so i don't think you will have the problems some mentioned when going for the heavier virtualisation types like Xen. just make sure the card is reachable inside the guest http://doku.songshu.org/doku.php?id=debian_lenny_asterisk -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users