[asterisk-biz] Re: VMWare

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:47:41PM -0400, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, James Oakley wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > Xen can have better performance, but it will still suffer from the same 
> > issues of clock granularity, as well as a lack of Zaptel access.
> 
> I ran asterisk on a dual p2 300 for about a year under Xen. It ran just
> fine for my home use.

And I ran my home PBX running Asterisk under CoLinux on top of Windows XP 
for a long period of time too. In most light use and testing cases, a 
virtualization platform will provide acceptable performance, but I 
wouldn't put a business on it.

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