[ale] Asterisk for

[Jim Lynch]

On 10/22/2010 12:43 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Chris Fowler<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>  writes:
>
>    
>> For asterisk timing is critical.  You can use the zaptel driver for this
>> and in my system I have a X100P PCI board that assists with this.  When
>> you don't have a PCI board then the zaptel driver can still provide
>> timing using the RTC.
>>
>> VMs are frowned upon, again due to that timing issue.  I would suggest
>> _REAL_ hardware.    My system is on a real server sitting at Peak 10 in
>> Norcross.
>>      
> I've been running asterisk in a VM without any issues at all, but I'm
> also not doing anything complicated.  I've got a single SIP line coming
> into asterisk, and I've got a single ATA and a linphone configured.
> I've rarely had issues (although I do sometimes have issues dialing out,
> where it will ring for a while and then I get disconnected, possibly due
> to a transfer or some such).
>
> -derek
>
>    
There have been reports to the FreeSwitch crowd of successful 
implementation on Xen and OpenVZ.  Apparently the performance is 4x that 
of Asterisk and so the problems running Asterisk on a container do not 
affect FS as much.  The Sangoma folks have also gotten the wanpipe 
drivers to play with Xen so you're not limited to SIP but can have POTS 
support also.  There's work being done to try to get it working with 
OpenVZ and since it works fine with Xen, I don't anticipate problems 
with a OpenVZ.  Personally I haven't gotten it to work yet, but others 
are working on it also.

Jim.