[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Port to Windows

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Chris Albertson wrote:

> 
> Why not just use "VMware" or "QEMU" and either run Windows in the
> virtual machine on Linux or the other way around  In fact 
> running Asterisk inside a Linux virtual machine on Linux can be
> attractive
> because you can ship * as an image file, zero configuration
> and you can e-mail updates.  As long as it's VOIP only there is not
> hardware issue.  Anyone can download a "VM Player" from the VMWare
> web site.  Point that at an Asterrisk VM image an you'd be up
> and running in minuites under qwindows - voip only.

The timing granularity of an emulated Virtual Machine is not precise 
enough to provide good quality results when running Asterisk inside of 
Vmware, CoLinux or Qemu. It can be done, as evidenced by the AstWind 
project, but any sort of disk-access will cause problems and bring the 
system to it's knees, making the resulting VoIP calls virtually unusable.

You would be better off running Asterisk natively on linux and emulating 
the Windows machines in Vmware.

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