[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 14:26, Dan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The reason I ask this is because I have a Win2K PC running 24/7 which has
> enough power left, but if I cannot use any of the Digium hardware from
> inside VMWare then is useless.

You can not have a win2k PC running 24/7 without being highly vulnerable
to exploits. I won't even get into the even after patched it is still
vulnerable argument. You would be better off running win2k under vmware,
but then you would have to have X ontop of your phone system and that
isn't good either. 

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Gapinski" <Gary.Gapinski at grc.nasa.gov>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare
> 
> 
> > On Monday 07 July 2003 12:07, Dan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There is any experience using Asterisk with VMWare?
> > > I think about installing a virtual linux box over VMWare and then
> > > Asterisk over it.
> >
> > I use it with VMware, but Asterisk runs on the host OS, not in the VM.
> >
> > You should have no problem running Asterisk in a VM, but you would be
> > unable to use any Digium or similar hardware, as VMware does not expose
> > such devices to a VM.
> >
> >
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> >
> 
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