Dan, Your problems are all the result of your computer and your software. It's not going to work for you in your setup. Repeat: It's not going to work for you in your setup. Repeat again for increased clarity: It's not going to work for you in your setup. I really don't understand why you keep asking the question because you keep getting the same answer from every single person. For the $299 that VMWare costs, you can build a barebones machine with a small HDD that is sufficient to run asterisk. Even if you'd rather run it all on the same machine, IT IS THE ONLY WAY YOU WILL GET ASTERISK TO RUN PROPERLY. VMware Workstation is NOT DESIGNED to do this kind of job. As I said in a post before, VMWare GSX Server which is designed to do this sort of thing (but still may be insufficient for asterisk) is priced at $2500. If you bought a support contract from VMWare, they'd tell you the same thing.
Software running inside of VMWare with a Win32 host is not going to give you good performance when it needs to be interactive, and Asterisk needs to be interactive a lot of the time. No matter how many performance tweaks you make to the Win32 box, you're still going to have problems with asterisk. With the amount of RAM you have, Windows WILL swap the VM's main memory to disk after a while. This will cause you insurmountable performance problems with asterisk or any service-type application running in the VM. You can look at a SIP-Proxy only solution like SEP that doesn't do transcoding or IVR and maybe get things working IF you can figure out how to force windows to never swap VMWare to disk (ie buy another 640MB of ram and force VMWare to run in the highest priority even in the background) Here are your options. Both one of these will give you a 100% working solution to your problem: 1) Return VMWare if you have already purchased it for this purpose and use the $299 to build a standalone computer suitable for the task. If you don't want to build one, you can buy one already built: http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MC1740-1 2) Purchase a VoIP or IVR application that runs and is supported under Windows that suits your purpose. If you need all the functionality that Asterisk provides, are stuck on Windows, and already have some cisco equipment, I hear that they have a product called "CallManager" that might do what you need :) No amount of belief on your part is going to make your computer and VMWare do this. John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 3:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and VMWare > > Hi, > > > > 1. run VMWARE in Full screen windows. > Tried this... same problem > > > 2. is your Linux kernel SMP? (see VM knowledge base) > I have the RH9 downloaded from Redhat site. > > > 3. what about your Linux guest CPU usage? Swap usage? Windows might > > report 5% but its what the linux guest sees that counts. VMWARE is a > > very good emulation but it is still an emulation. Doing near real time > > codec conversion on a AMD <1GH machine with 386MB might be too much. > I'll check this, but still I don't think that the CPU power or memory is > the > problem, more the interrupts and timing... > > > 4. Did you do bridge networking on the guest OS? NAT will invoke > > additional performance penalty, and have a big effect on your SIP call. > Bridging, using another IP address from the same subnet. > > > 5. What about the other "cards" in your system? Do they need a lot of > > interrupts from the PC? Check your perfmon for interrupts per second. > > CPU usage is only one piece of the pie. > I think yes, a lot of interrupts are shared between cards..... > I have: > - 1x Firewire, 2xUSB2.0, 1xUSB1.1, PCI Soft modem, USB Modem, 4xSerial > Ports, 1xgraphic card + TV Tunner (ATI All-in-Wonder 128) and a HA Box > (serial based). > I have succeeeded using USB under VMWare (a flash memory stick) , but > still > not able to use ztdummy or zaptelrtc (it uses USB for timing, not?) > > Thanks, > Dan _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users