[Asterisk-Users] yet another Asterisk and VMware question

[Gary Reuter]

On 8/12/05, Bruce Leetch <leetch_bruce at emc.com> wrote:
> I've purchased a TDM11B card and have installed it in the box. Windows sees
> it as a PCI Simple Communications board. A Linux "lspci" doesn't show
> anything even vaguely resembling this card. This troubles me. 
> 
You can run asterisk in a VMWare machine, but cannot use any hardware.
VMWare simply doesn't give direct hardware access.

Similar to video cards -- no matter what you have as physical
hardware, your virtual machine always sees a standardized video device
and for best performance, you use VMWare's drivers.