[asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Doug Lytle
Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- ___

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Steve Totaro
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.**php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ > > Doug > > -- > Ben Franklin quote: > > "Those who would give up Ess

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/09/2011 01:28 AM, Doug Lytle wrote: Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ With virtualized environments prone to timing issues does this make sense at all? Regards, Patrick --

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Doug Lytle
Steve Totaro wrote: Source code? http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.0_BETA2/VirtualBox-4.1.0_BETA2.tar.bz2 Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- ___

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Doug Lytle
Patrick Lists wrote: With virtualized environments prone to timing issues does this make sense at all? Wouldn't the timing be taken from the PCI device? This is how it's working on my systems now. Also, it's not something I would be put into production until I've hammered it. Doug -- Be

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Krishna Sumanth Chava
Hi Doug, May be you can try a PCI-E card that has a PRI port and asterisk on itself and eliminating the need to install asterisk. www.positrontelecom.com have these cards. Thanks, Krishna On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > Patrick Lists wrote: > >> With virtualized environmen

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Steve Totaro
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > Patrick Lists wrote: > >> With virtualized environments prone to timing issues does this make sense >> at all? >> > > Wouldn't the timing be taken from the PCI device? This is how it's working > on my systems now. Also, it's not something I wo

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Warren Selby
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ > > Doug Not trying to start a war here, but I thought Xen VM server has been able to do this for a while now? -- Thanks, --Warre

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Doug Lytle
Warren Selby wrote: Not trying to start a war here, That may be, but I have experience with VB. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- _

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Robert-iPhone
+1 for Xen -1 for VB Sent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > Warren Selby wrote: >> Not trying to start a war here, > > > That may be, but I have experience with VB. > > Doug > > > -- > Ben Franklin quote: > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to pu

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Warren Selby
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > Warren Selby wrote: >> >> Not trying to start a war here, > > > That may be, but I have experience with VB. > > Doug I use VB on my main desktop that runs windows in order to setup test environments, so I understand. :) -- Thanks, --Warren S

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-08 Thread Olivier
2011/7/9 Doug Lytle > Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.**php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ > > Doug > > -- > Ben Franklin quote: > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a l

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-09 Thread luca capra
Hi, just in case had someone tested a similiar setup with VM on KVM ? Luca On 09/07/2011 01:28, Doug Lytle wrote: Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ Doug --

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-09 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/09/2011 02:59 AM, Krishna Sumanth Chava wrote: Hi Doug, May be you can try a PCI-E card that has a PRI port and asterisk on itself and eliminating the need to install asterisk. www.positrontelecom.com have these cards. Interesting, never seen those befor

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-09 Thread Steve Totaro
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Warren Selby wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > > Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! > > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ > > > > Doug > > Not trying to start a war here, but I thought Xen VM

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:28:39PM -0400, Doug Lytle wrote: > Can you say a Virtualized Asterisk with a PRI card! > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0OQ I'm not sure this is relevant to your everyday PRI card. Simple pass-through of PCI is rather simple to implement. It has

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-11 Thread Steve Totaro
I was going to ask about DMA but wasn't sure, what does the host report on DMA and what does the guest OS report from cat /proc/dma? Just curious if the host OS gives bogo-dma. I am looking at timing issues which a think Free Switch has figured out along with T38 a while ago. I care slightly abo

Re: [asterisk-users] New VirtualBox Beta Has PCI Pass-Through Support

2011-07-21 Thread Joaquin Sosa
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 04:11, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > The solution: IOMMU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iommu . > The CPU of the system has a Memory Management Unit (MMU) that > maps virtual address spaces to processes. Likewise we know prevent the > IO card from seeing physical addresses. Rat