[Asterisk-Users] iaxy vs sipura

[hank smith]

how much ram you got on the pc running the vm?  also will microsoft Virtual 
PC run on xp home?
thanks
hank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Seddon" <bill.seddon at lyquidity.com>
To: "'Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists'" <benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com>; 
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Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 6:34 AM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] iaxy vs sipura


>I run Asterisk on Redhat 8.0 with a VM hosted by Microsoft's Virtual PC
> which, in turn, runs on Windows 2000 Server.  Works like a charm.  Can't 
> use
> Zaptel cards but that's OK for me.  I can put it into standby any time and
> it takes only a few seconds to start up the VM from its saved state and at
> that time the Linux session (and Asterisk) is available once again.
>
> Bill Seddon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin on
> Asterisk Mailing Lists
> Sent: September 10, 2004 2:03 PM
> To: Andy Powell
> Cc: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxy vs sipura
>
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:05:09 +0200, Andy Powell
> <andy at beagles-den.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> At the risk of stating the obvious.... if you have a laptop not running
> MacOSX (ie perhaps running windows) download my asterisk live! cd (
> http://www.automated.it/asterisk/ ), burn it and test it on your laptop 
> and
> bung it in your laptop case along with your iaxy/sipura/whatever
>> and errm... problem solved.. :D
>
> Certainly an option, but most business folks will want to have their
> Outlook contacts and Excel spreadsheets in front of them when they are
> on the phone. Dual boot environments are not ideal in those
> situations. Imagine you're talking to some guy on the phone about
> prices and he tells you "I cant' tell you what the discounts are right
> now because I would have to shut down the phone system to open Excel".
>
> However, you could use VMware on an Intel notebook to run both Windoze
> and Linux concurrently. This wouldn't be ideal for a real PBX for
> performance reasons, but since all you are going to use Asterisk for
> is to be a gateway for one single user, it's probably ok in this
> particular scenario.
>
> I remember there was a guy in Romania who reported he had VMware with
> Windoze and Asterisk on Linux running as a home PBX on his PC and it
> seemed to be alright.
>
> If you'd combine such a setup with a Windoze GUI tool that will start
> and stop the Linux environment and Asterisk at the push of a button,
> then you'd have a fairly convenient and workable SIP/IAX gateway
> solution for travelling biz folks.
>
> rgds
> benjk
>
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