[asterisk-users] zaptel huge irq problem

[François Delawarde]

I don't really know of other virtualization technology other than Xen, 
and I thank you for guiding me through this, but I have a few doubts 
related to the choice of a virtualization technology in a host with 
Asterisk:

- Isn't the fact that KVM is now included in the mainstream Linux kernel 
as of 2.6.20 a certain type of 'proof' that it could be stable enough 
compared to others (of course there could be licensing or other 
political/friendship issues)?

- Even if the virtual guests aren't totally stable and 100% reliable 
yet, wouldn't the use of KVM be better with Zaptel compatible cards than 
Xen, in architecture point of vue, as it is only a kernel module that 
-as far as I know- don't appear to be changing fundamental issues like 
IRQ handling or I/O scheduling in the kernel, and from the fact that 
virtual machines are treated like simple processes?

François.



Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007 1:00 pm, François Delawarde wrote:
>   
>> Thanks again for your help, and sorry if I was not 'that' convinced on
>> your first answer and sent a mail to Xen user mailing list to check if
>> they knew that issue (no answer yet). Now I almost believe you a lot. If
>> I understand well I have two options, recode Xen or abandon it. I'll
>> probably go for the 2nd choice and start looking at other solutions, KVM
>> seems to be a good choice and shouldn't interfere much with Asterisk
>> (again: as far as mailing lists say).
>>     
>
> Let me try to understand this:
>
> Xen is a (far) more mature virtualization technology than KVM, and it's been 
> said that it's commercialization was rushed.  So you're going to try KVM, 
> which is still under heavy development, as a stable solution?
>
> -A.
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