Wow. That is pretty nifty. I know that VM technology keeps getting better, but I would not have expected Asterisk to run well in one; it certainly never has in my experience.
I learn something new every day . . . Jim -- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich." Guy Kawasaki -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Remzi Semsettin Turer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: November 10, 2007 4:06 PM > To: 'Asterisk Mailing' > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Running under Virtual PC.,, > > We are running on two virtual servers, one on Xen, one on > VMWare ESX, both have perfect sound quality. We don't have > any hardware cards, pure SIP, and had used different codecs, > including g711, g723 and g729 with no issues. We have around > 10 people concurrently using the system. > > With that said, Jim you have a point, Windows is not the best > host for virtualization. Both our environments are based on Linux. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 10:53 AM > To: 'Asterisk Mailing' > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Running under Virtual PC.,, > > What you are proposing might work as a development system > (I'll admit that I have not used Virtual PC, but I use VMWare > extensively), but regardless, you would not want to put such > a system into production. Asterisk requires priority access > to the CPU, and as such, it is hard to imagine any kind of > virtual machine being able to run it in a manner that > delivered proper sound quality. The Asterisk software will > actually run well-enough, but the sound quality is going to > be poor, even on a powerful system with the Virtual machine > running at high priority. Even if it could be tuned to > deliver proper sound quality, you would still never be able > to predict when some windows background task would steal a > bunch of resources. Windows likes to go off and do its own > thing, and when it decides to perform some background task, > it is quite capable of hogging resources such that your > asterisk system will deliver terrible sound quality. > > If you want a low-cost platform on which to run a small > asterisk system, look to something like the Linksys WRT54GL > (OpenWRT). If you need FXO, grab something like a Linksys > SPA3001. You'll be able to run a phone or two on that with no > problems. > > Virtual machines are awesome for development; asterisk runs perfectly. > Unfortunately, the sound quality is generally terrible. Not > such a problem in the lab, but a show-stopper in production. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > -- > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas Keats [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: November 10, 2007 10:10 AM > > To: Asterisk Mailing > > Subject: [on-asterisk] Running under Virtual PC.,, > > > > I have just upgraded to a new system, and managed to get > high speed in > > the country (Hello WiMax), with that I am experimenting > with Microsoft > > Virtual PC. > > > > I like what I've seen so far and want to reduce desktop > clutter, and > > floor clutter by combining most, if not all PC's into one > unit. Has > > anyone had any experience running asterisk under Linux in a > Virtual PC > > environment? > > > > Windows Vista Ulitmate, with Virtual PC 2007. > > Generic X100P (I think) PBX card. > > 2 GIG Ram, soon to be upgraded, with 250 GB SATA3 Seagate... > > Slackware 10 > > Asterisk 1.4(?) > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > THANKS! > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
