RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.6, VMWare, Playback/Background GSM prompts
You can't reliably run a real-time application (like asterisk) on a virtual machine. You will get better performance from an old PC than a VM on a new top-end PC. Sorry MD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:40 PMTo: asterisk-users@lists.digium.comSubject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.6, VMWare, Playback/Background GSM prompts I've spent the past week experimenting with [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.6, andthen Asterisk 1.2.6 individually, on VMWare Workstation 5.5. I have anentirely IP (hard soft)phone setup (IAX and SIP) so I have norequirements to support any Digium PCI cards, etc.All in Asterisk works extremely well except for one thing: Playback ofsounds (GSM format) such as an ivr greetings, sound terrible. Choppy,uneven, broken audio, etc to the caller.I have a fairly fast system as the host: dual core AMD X2, 2GB mem,running SMP 64-bit centos-4.2. Asterisk guest OS is centos-4.2 32bit.No other guests are running.Just for grins, I also installed Asterisk on a lowly 3-year old AMDDuron system (no VMWare). Using the same Asterisk config files andsound files as above, but in this case the audio playback (using theAsterisk 'background"' command) sounds perfect.Anyone else notice this when using Asterisk with VMWareIdeas? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.6, VMWare, Playback/Background GSM prompts
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:08 -0500, Technical Support wrote: You can't reliably run a real-time application (like asterisk) on a virtual machine. You will get better performance from an old PC than a VM on a new top-end PC. Sorry MD H, I would have to say a properly configured GSX server running on Linux will run almost any OS and outperform and old PC. So you may want to go with GSX vs. Workstation if you don't just have a PC you can put * on by itself. -Greg ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.6, VMWare, Playback/Background GSM prompts
For what it is worth I had the same experience with VMWare server. I got better sound from my 5 year old workstation. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/28/2006 12:40 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.6, VMWare, Playback/Background GSM prompts I've spent the past week experimenting with [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.6, and then Asterisk 1.2.6 individually, on VMWare Workstation 5.5. I have an entirely IP (hard soft)phone setup (IAX and SIP) so I have no requirements to support any Digium PCI cards, etc. All in Asterisk works extremely well except for one thing: Playback of sounds (GSM format) such as an ivr greetings, sound terrible. Choppy, uneven, broken audio, etc to the caller. I have a fairly fast system as the host: dual core AMD X2, 2GB mem, running SMP 64-bit centos-4.2. Asterisk guest OS is centos-4.2 32bit. No other guests are running. Just for grins, I also installed Asterisk on a lowly 3-year old AMD Duron system (no VMWare). Using the same Asterisk config files and sound files as above, but in this case the audio playback (using the Asterisk 'background' command) sounds perfect. Anyone else notice this when using Asterisk with VMWare Ideas? winmail.dat___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
