[asterisk-users] Anyone using Asterisk on VirtualBox ?

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, RSCL Mumbai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone using Asterisk on Virtualbox.
>
> I am using and facing CPU peaking issue.
>
> Hardware is IBM X3200 M3, Quad Core Xeon 3 GHz with 4 GB RAM (2 cores
> and 2 GM RAM allocated to the asterisk VM -- thats the only VM as of
> now), 64bit CentOS 5.4.
> Only SIP and softphones.
> Max 10 simultaneous calls.
>
> Unable to ascertain if the problem is with Asterisk, Virtualbox,
> Configuration, or the whole system should not be the way it is.
>
> Anyone will to share their settings and help me.
>
> Thx
> Sanjay
>

I tried and failed with VirtualBox too.  Timing seemed impossible to 
maintain, even on beefy hardware (hexacore) with plenty of RAM (16G), and 
nothing else going on (single instance).  I don't think VirtualBox is up 
to real-time stuff.

We use LXC now, and it is fantastic.

j