You guys are crushing my hopes and dreams. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:56 AM, James Kerr <cluster...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a desire to run a voice-mail and PBX on virtual machines, if > possible. > > If the phone system requires any special hardware in the PC, it's > unlikely to work. For example, expansion cards for interface to > analog or TDM ports. > > For something that's just an Internet Protocol node, it should work. > expect vendor support will be the biggest issue. Phone equipment > makers often act[1] rather ignorant when it comes to their PC-based > platforms. You don't want to end up in a "We don't support that > configuration" scenario if your phones are down. > > From a technical standpoint, it should be fine. OSes are already > time-sliced; you're just time-slicing the OS now, too. There may be > some tech details to work through. Real-time voice is very > susceptible to latency and jitter, so there may be some VM tuning > involved there. You prolly don't want to oversubscribe the host > resources for that VM. > > -- Ben > > [1] "Act", not necessarily "are" > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
