[asterisk-users] Anyone using Asterisk on VirtualBox ?

[RSCL Mumbai]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:25 PM, RSCL Mumbai <rscl.mumbai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at sunfone.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, RSCL Mumbai wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> Anyone using Asterisk on Virtualbox.
>>>
>>> I am using and facing CPU peaking issue.
>>>
>>> Hardware is IBM X3200 M3, Quad Core Xeon 3 GHz with 4 GB RAM (2 cores
>>> and 2 GM RAM allocated to the asterisk VM -- thats the only VM as of
>>> now), 64bit CentOS 5.4.
>>> Only SIP and softphones.
>>> Max 10 simultaneous calls.
>>>
>>> Unable to ascertain if the problem is with Asterisk, Virtualbox,
>>> Configuration, or the whole system should not be the way it is.
>>>
>>> Anyone will to share their settings and help me.
>>>
>>> Thx
>>> Sanjay
>>>
>>>
>> I tried and failed with VirtualBox too.  Timing seemed impossible to
>> maintain, even on beefy hardware (hexacore) with plenty of RAM (16G), and
>> nothing else going on (single instance).  I don't think VirtualBox is up to
>> real-time stuff.
>>
>> We use LXC now, and it is fantastic.
>>
>> j
>>
>>
> Thx Jeff.
>
> Kindly share some more details on the kind of hardware you are using, LXC
> parameters and the kind of load the system can handle.
>
> I am sure this will help me and more like myself.
>
> Thx
> Sanjay
>

My main interest of being on Virtual platform is portability / Backup.
In case of any h/w issues, or crashes, simply copy the VM on to another box
and you are up in minutes.


Sanjay
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