Hey all, I've been wanting to play around with Asterisk in a Xen virtual environment for a while and have finally found some time. Getting a Xen server setup with Centos 5.1 is a breeze, you just select the virtualization package group on install and away she goes. The virt-manager tool developed by Redhat (http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com) and has both a graphical and command line tool to help you setup new VMs. As this is a server without gnome/kde/x installed I went the command line route and again everything is a breeze. I'd love to do a write-up for others once I'm finished.
Now comes the hard part, getting ztdummy or some sort of timing mechanism for music on hold, and call conferencing (meetme). Explidous on the Digium bug tracker created ztxen (http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=9592 ) but it appears it's really not needed as you can comment out a line before compiling ztdummy. Here comes the problem. Currently this "requires the kernel to be compiled with CONFIG_HZ=1000" according to Explidous. I'm sure a lot of us have had to recompile a kernel before for one thing or another but on a future production box you try to avoid things like this because keeping everything standard is much easier to maintain. I stumbled across http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 in my research which seems to suggest running a 1000hz kernel timer on a SMP box might be a bad idea. So now the question becomes what to do. Thanks, Blaine Aldridge --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
