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color=#0000ff size=2>You can't reliably run a real-time application (like
asterisk) on a virtual machine. You will get better performance from an
old PC than a VM on a new top-end PC. Sorry</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>dveith1@comcast.net<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:40
PM<BR><B>To:</B> asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.6, VMWare,& Playback/Background GSM prompts
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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?</DI V> </DIV></BODY></HTML>