[asterisk-users] DAHDI on VMWARE

[Danny Nicholas]

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Shaun Ruffell
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] DAHDI on VMWARE

On 12/02/2010 04:19 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jason Parker
> 
> On 12/02/2010 02:03 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote:
>> Hi gang,
>>
>> We are moving our computers from a cluster of physical machines to a
> VMWARE
>> server with virtual machines. We investigated and are looking to replace
> our
>> TDM400P/TDM410P with AEX410P cards. Can we run asterisk with the DAHDI
> drivers
>> from one of the Virtual machines or is DAHDI going to have to be a native
>> process on the "REAL" machine?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Danny Nicholas
>>
> 
> VMware has no type of "PCI-passthrough" feature that I'm aware of.  There
> are 
> virtualization environments that do, but the added overhead is going to
make
> 
> things extremely unreliable.
> 
> This is the "odd" thing - the vmware machine "sees" the card
> (dahdi_hardware) but can't seem to properly load via modprobe (conflicts
on
> IRQ 16 (13?)
> 

There is a comment in this post (from 2010-03-14) where someone claims
that only certain devices are supported in pass-through:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1493624#1493624

What is the dmesg output when the wctdm24xxp driver is loaded on this
system?


-- 
Shaun Ruffell

[77901.847781] wctdm24xxp 0000:13:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
IRQ 16
[77901.847796] wctdm24xxp 0000:13:00.0: IO Registers are in use by another
module.
[77901.847807] wctdm24xxp 0000:13:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[77901.847816] wctdm24xxp: probe of 0000:13:00.0 failed with error -5