The big drivers for virtualization are server consolidation and
software testing, so it might be awhile until a serious effort to
optimize audio processing gets mounted. I'll see what the Asterisk
folks have to say about this...
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In [email protected], "Frank Brickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Dave Bernstein" <aa6yq@>
wrote:
>
> > For hams, multiple virtual machines would let you simultaneously
run
> > both Windows and Linux applications on the same PC. Multiple
virtual
> > machines would also enable those developing applications to test
> > those applications on multiple OS configurations all running on
the
> > same PC.
>
> As it stands right now, that PC might have to be a monster. The
> virtual OS <-> host OS audio subsystem paths are *very* sluggish --
> this is based on a fair amount of empirical testing -- and can't
keep
> up with anything more than very modest sample rates on a typical
home
> machine.
>
> My own experiences with virtualization have been quite disappointing
> so far. The advantages to the technology are too strong to be
ignored
> in the long run. It's bound to happen in a big way eventually. For
the
> moment, though, Xen and VMWare are a little too shaky for the kind
of
> soft realtime work you see in ham digital comms apps.
>
> 73
> Frank
> AB2KT
>
