[asterisk-users] digium card and virualbox

[Hans Witvliet]

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From: bilal ghayyad <bilmar_gh at yahoo.com>
Reply-to: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] digium card and virualbox
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:18:52 -0700 (PDT)

I am not mixing. I need this for LAB testing. 
How? This PCI passthrough, how to enable it on virualbox?
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> > Hi All;
> >
> > How to let the virualbox (ubuntu OS) to be able to see
> the digium card? Because when I install elastix or asterisk
> with dahdi, it is not able to see the digium card if the
> installation though the virualbox .. What is the solution?
> The solution is to run Ubuntu and Asterisk on your hardware
> natively, 
> not through VirtualBox.
> 
> Virtualisation and high-performance hardware such as
> telephony cards  
> (it will be creating 8000 interrupts per phone line per
> second)  do not 
> mix, I am afraid.

What you might do, is  running an very elementary asterisk on the iron,
just acting as an PSTN-gateway. 
And run your experimental asterisk as a virtual client.

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