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<DIV>I've spent the past week experimenting with Asterisk@Home 2.6, and<BR>then Asterisk 1.2.6 individually, on VMWare Workstation 5.5. I have an<BR>entirely IP (hard & soft)phone setup (IAX and SIP) so I have no<BR>requirements to support any Digium PCI cards, etc.<BR><BR>All in Asterisk works extremely well except for one thing: Playback of<BR>sounds (GSM format) such as an ivr greetings, sound terrible. Choppy,<BR>uneven, broken audio, etc to the caller.<BR><BR>I have a fairly fast system as the host: dual core AMD X2, 2GB mem,<BR>running SMP 64-bit centos-4.2. Asterisk guest OS is centos-4.2 32bit.<BR>No other guests are running.<BR><BR>Just for grins, I also installed Asterisk on a lowly 3-year old AMD<BR>Duron system (no VMWare). Using the same Asterisk config files and<BR>sound files as above, but in this case the audio playback (using the<BR>Asterisk 'background"' command) sounds perfect.<BR><BR>Anyone else notice this when using Asterisk with VMWare<BR>Ideas?</DIV></body></html>