[asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

[Kingsley Tart]

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 23:41 +0100, Michiel van Baak wrote:
> Forget about virtualization!
> This system is running linux as base os (I conclude by the tone of your
> mail)
> Just install asterisk on it besides the monitoring software and be done
> with it.
> What do you gain by running virtualisation on it ? Nothing.
> 
> snapshots are not bound to virtualisation. Just redo the box with lvm
> and you can make snapshots with that.
> 
> Virtualisation is nice for test-setups, but thats it. for any real job
> it's a major pain in the ass and makes stuff bork beyond imagination.

I don't agree with that. Virtualisation has many benefits in the real
world (eg ease of deployment and management, hardware fault tolerance
when using vSphere with vMotion etc, more effective hardware
utilisation, power savings, the list goes on).

Having said that, I don't see the benefit of virtualisation in this
particular situation unless there's a need to want to test an OS upgrade
or Asterisk upgrade on the same hardware and be able to easily roll back
if it didn't work.

Would the VM be able to address the ISDN card directly? Not sure how
well the time critical bits would work in a VM.

-- 
Cheers,
Kingsley.