[Asterisk-Users] yet another Asterisk and VMware question

Bruce Leetch leetch_bruce at emc.com
Sun Aug 14 21:10:51 MST 2005


I did find this on the VMware wish list re Asterisk and PCI slots. I'm not
holding my breath.

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=7839&messageID=65462

I guess I'll drum up an PC from spares.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Boehnlein [mailto:damin at nacs.net] 
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 5:24 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] yet another Asterisk and VMware question

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Bruce Leetch wrote:

> Am I banging my head against at Windows/VMware/Linux/Asterisk
> incompatibility? Or can this work and I'm just doing something stupid
> (always a possibility with me). 

It's not going to work. Vmware presents a complete Virtual PC, so unless 
EMC / Vmware release drivers to specifically connect the Virtual PC to the 
real PC hardware, you are in trouble. The do a pass-through w/ USB, Serial 
and Paralell, but those are a different story.

> With a great amount of effort, I can drum up a spare machine, but I REALLY
> don't want to do this and would much prefer the VMware setup. Any advice
> will be welcomed.

I'm afraid that under any Virtual platform (CoLinux, Vmware, MS Virutal 
PC) you are SOL as far as real access to hardware on the host PCI bus 
w/out special drivers written specifically for that purpose. On the other 
hand, I'm sure that Vmware would be happy to help you out if you gave them 
a couple of million bucks! ;)

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