-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shaun Ruffell Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:29 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] DAHDI on VMWARE
On 12/02/2010 04:19 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Parker > > On 12/02/2010 02:03 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> We are moving our computers from a cluster of physical machines to a > VMWARE >> server with virtual machines. We investigated and are looking to replace > our >> TDM400P/TDM410P with AEX410P cards. Can we run asterisk with the DAHDI > drivers >> from one of the Virtual machines or is DAHDI going to have to be a native >> process on the "REAL" machine? >> >> Thanks >> >> Danny Nicholas >> > > VMware has no type of "PCI-passthrough" feature that I'm aware of. There > are > virtualization environments that do, but the added overhead is going to make > > things extremely unreliable. > > This is the "odd" thing - the vmware machine "sees" the card > (dahdi_hardware) but can't seem to properly load via modprobe (conflicts on > IRQ 16 (13?) > There is a comment in this post (from 2010-03-14) where someone claims that only certain devices are supported in pass-through: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1493624#1493624 What is the dmesg output when the wctdm24xxp driver is loaded on this system? -- Shaun Ruffell [77901.847781] wctdm24xxp 0000:13:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [77901.847796] wctdm24xxp 0000:13:00.0: IO Registers are in use by another module. [77901.847807] wctdm24xxp 0000:13:00.0: PCI INT A disabled [77901.847816] wctdm24xxp: probe of 0000:13:00.0 failed with error -5 -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
