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

[Michael Manousos]

Hi Dan,

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.

Try this:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-July/001139.html

It is a patch that I posted to the Asterisk mailing list,
a few days ago, handling this problem, for machines that do not
have a zaptel hardware installed.

> 
> BR,
> Dan
> P.S. Please do not answer again that this setup cannot work. In this moment
> I cannot accept such an answer.
> 


Michael.