[asterisk-biz] Re: VMWare

[James Oakley]

On Monday 17 July 2006 11:23 pm, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > 	Can Asterisk be configured so the paths through it which require the
> > timing accuracy of the real CPU get those, while the rest of the server
> > can be embedded in a scalable VMWare fabric?
>
> Perhaps you could tune the living crap out of Vmware's ESX kernel to do
> that, but at $6,000 / server I doubt this is within most people's reach.
> Also, the clock on all Vmware products is emulated, not based on a
> real-time clock, so most all real-time applications fail to work reliably
> on Vmware.

I've heard of people running Asterisk successfully under Xen, which is 
fundamentally different than Vmware, and is free. I haven't done it myself, 
but I plan to in the near future.

Here's some benchmarks:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/performance.html

-- 
James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
joakley at solutioninc.com
http://www.solutioninc.com

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