[Asterisk-Users] Again Asterisk and VMWare - it works now!

[Steve Underwood]

David Boreham wrote:

>>P.S. Please do not answer again that this setup cannot work. In this
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>>I cannot accept such an answer.
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>Your e-mail made me chuckle. When I worked at Octel/Lucent
>in the mid-90's we were constantly sniped at for trying to make
>a voicemail system which ran on general purpose computers, operating
>systems, and message stores. It was hard work to get it to run
>smoothly back then even though we were the only application on the box.
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>And today there's a guy who's trying to do the same thing
>in a VIRTUAL MACHINE !?!?!?
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In the mid 90s much of the world's voicemail used Dialogic cards in PC 
servers, and ran without problems. Voicemail is easy, as the latency 
requires are very lax. VoIP is much harder in systems not tailored for 
hard real time use.

Regards,
Steve