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

[Dan]

Hi Erik,

> 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%.

My customers are: me, my wife and my little boy..:-))

> If you are SERIOUS about Asterisk grab an old 200-800Mhz PC and put RH8 on
> it.
I need a realbox with PSTN conection at my office.
I just want this solution for my home.

> 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.
The main Asterisk box is on RH9 box (only Celeron at 300MHz with 128MB RAM) for
more than 3 months now without any issue.
It works perfect for me.

> 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.
>
As I told before, it is NOT a codec conversison problem.
Incomming IAX streams (GSM) are very well converted to G.711 for the
internal Cisco 7960's...the sound is perfect.
Tried with two simultaneous stream and is still works like a charm.

BR,
Dan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Anderson" <eanders at midco.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Again Asterisk and VMWare - it works now!


> 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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