[Asterisk-Users] yet another Asterisk and VMware question

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Lull, Rick wrote:

> This is one of the main reasons that AstWind has stagnated. The timing 
> granularity of the virtual machines is not acceptable for doing anything
> 
> IO related.
> 
> Just since I am curious, what version of VMWare did you use and what kind of
> box where you running on?

4.5 and 5.0 variants of Vmware Workstation and CoLinux on top of a Windows 
host environment. Same applies for running Vmware under a Linux host 
environment as well. Machines where 2.8 Ghz Dell boxes w/ 1.5 gigs of ram.
 
> I've just moved my * box to a VM on ESX server and didn't play with
> voicemail until you mentioned it - now Allison's voice cuts in and out.
> Sounds like I am going to have to go back to the box I was running on
> previously. My original box is a P3 500 desktop while my VMWare ESX box is a
> dual P3 1.4GHz HP Proliant server.

You would probably get the BEST performance by using User Mode Linux, w/ 
the latest SKAS patches. I know someone that does this and only 
occasionally has a dropped frame in audio here and there.

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