[Asterisk-Users] Again Asterisk and VMWare - it works now!

[Erik Anderson]

Agreed.  Asterisk inside a VMWare is not the right place.

If you just want to screw around with Asterisk maybe you can use VMWare and
get it to work with 75% usability but trust me your customers will be
complaining about that 25%.

If you are SERIOUS about Asterisk grab an old 200-800Mhz PC and put RH8 on
it.

We fought with RH9 when several top members of the Asterisk community said
to stay with RH8.  We lost over a week by ignoring recommendations from
Asterisk experts.

I run VMWare day in and day out.  20+ different Windows and Linux VMWare's
running on a RH OS.  I even run production MS SQL Server in VMWare.  Big
difference between SQL Server and Asterisk.  SQL Server does not require any
access to custom hardware and a little emulation latency is not critical for
a small time used DB.

VMWare is going to have to work 4X as hard as a dedicated system when you
start piling on codec users.  That 4X is going to cause a lot of latency,
popping,  packet drops, and choppy voice.

Erik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Roy Sigurd
> Karlsbakk
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 4:34 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Again Asterisk and VMWare - it works now!
>
>
> IIRC you were given URLs for all sorts of cheapo PCs. Perhaps you've got
> an old P90 lying around? Or perhaps someone else has?
>
> Use that!
> Not vmware!
> If you're to use vmware, do it the other way around - linux host with
> vmware windoze guest. This works fine for me on my PC.
>
> On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 08:49, Dan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have succeed using Asterisk on VMWare on an Athlon at 1GB with 128 MB
> > allocated for the Linux virtual machine.
> > I have connected this PBX with another one using IAX/GSM. I can call the
> > other part and the sound is great, without any interruption.
> > The phone used is a Cisco7960 with G.711, so still a codec
> conversion is in
> > place (GSM/G.711) and Asterisk/VMWare Wkst performs very well.
> >
> > The problem is only when I try to call local services, like echo test or
> > Digium Demo. Then, the sound of the informative message for the
> Digium Demo
> > is choppy, but the sound from the Digium server (after
> connection) is very
> > good.
> >
> > So.. the problem is only to play local files when in virtual
> machine (menus,
> > informative messages, etc.). Why? It is clear that this is not
> a computer
> > performance issue and/or a timing problem during the codec conversion.
> > More, the inband DTMF works like a charm under the virtual
> machine. Even the
> > known problem with double digits for Cisco phones dissapear.
> >
> > BR,
> > Dan
> > P.S. Please do not answer again that this setup cannot work. In
> this moment
> > I cannot accept such an answer.
> >
> >
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