[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare

[Sunny Woo]

Your machine is way underpower and underRAM, I am amazed you can even
run VMWARE and a Linux guest on it. 

Have you try:
1. run VMWARE in Full screen windows.
2. is your Linux kernel SMP? (see VM knowledge base)
3. what about your Linux guest CPU usage? Swap usage? Windows might
report 5% but its what the linux guest sees that counts. VMWARE is a
very good emulation but it is still an emulation. Doing near real time
codec conversion on a AMD <1GH machine with 386MB might be too much.
4. Did you do bridge networking on the guest OS? NAT will invoke
additional performance penalty, and have a big effect on your SIP call.
5. What about the other "cards" in your system? Do they need a lot of
interrupts from the PC? Check your perfmon for interrupts per second.
CPU usage is only one piece of the pie.




On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 23:22, Dan wrote:
> This is a solutioin for my question?
> I don't want another box in my house running 24/7...
> Why to buy another disk as the system MUST run Win XP for some other
> important reasons??
> Dan
> .
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brancaleoni Matteo" <mbrancaleoni at espia.it>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare
> 
> 
> > buy a 30$ hd, install linux on it and use it
> > natively.
> >
> > Matteo.
> >
> > Il sab, 2003-07-12 alle 21:49, Dan ha scritto:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have installed Asterisk in a VM under VMWare Workstation 4.x (on
> WinXP).
> > > The computer is an Athlon @1GHz with 384MB RAM, 128MB allocated for RH9.
> > > Linux is fully installed (but without any X stuff).
> > > I have the latest Astrisk distribution (DL today)
> > > I have no Digium card installed on this machine.
> > >
> > > When I call Echotest, Asterisk play the message a l ittle bit choppy,
> but
> > > the echotest is perfect (no interruptions).
> > > The processor is used max 5% (peak) by the VMWare engine during  the
> message
> > > playing.
> > >
> > > I have used a Cisco 7960 (G711) to call the Echotest.
> > > It seems that the GSM to G711 conversion inside VMWare virtual machine
> is
> > > the cause of this.
> > > It can be done something to improve this behaviour?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
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