This just totally blows away so many things I thought I 'knew' about virtual machines.
I gotta go get me another Linux box to play with. 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: Matthew Mackes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: November 10, 2007 8:55 PM > To: Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast > Cc: 'Asterisk Mailing' > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Running under Virtual PC.,, > > > Hey Everyone, > > > I have my home Asterisk (Rpath, poundkey) running in a VMware > Server environment, hosted on CentOS, with three other VMs. > (My IPCOP Firewall, a Fileserver, and SSL Explorer) All 4 > VM's run nicely on a P4D with 2GB of RAM. I have disabled X > on the Host, and My Host only shows about 10% usage at peek. > Idle it shows almost none, and when I am only placing calls > (no other VM's in use) the pound key VM shows 5% and the host > shows less. > > I have 4 Cisco 7960's registered, and Sipphone, FWD, > Sipbroker, my office (via IAX) and Vitelity all registered > for trunking, and 2 ATAs for POTS. > > All accounts and devices stay registered, and work without issue. > > I think its important to remember that unless you are > transcoding between codecs your Asterisk server doesn't do a > whole lot. If you stay ULaw for example on all of your > devices, Asterisk really is just directing traffic. > > However, and I cannot stress this enough, MS Windows is a > poor VMServer platform when it comes to resource usage. > Vmware and Virtual PC are forced to fight the Windows Host OS > for resources. > > > Matt > > > > > Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast wrote: > > Remzi: > > Can you share with us your Hardware Specs for the > benchmark you provided? > > Thanks! > Reza. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Remzi Semsettin Turer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Asterisk Mailing'" <[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 4:06 PM > 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] > > > > > > -- > Matthew Mackes > Network Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delta Sonic Car Wash Systems, Corporate Headquarters Buffalo, New York > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
